From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752676AbcD1OXB (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:23:01 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:60698 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752316AbcD1OW7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:22:59 -0400 X-powerpc-patch-notification: thanks X-powerpc-patch-commit: 7132e2d669bd42c3783327f301aaac5f4463299b In-Reply-To: <1461621374-14408-1-git-send-email-bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Thiago Jung Bauermann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michael Ellerman Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann , Ingo Molnar , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64 Message-Id: <3qwfDy0RZ7z9t7M@ozlabs.org> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:22:57 +1000 (AEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2016-25-04 at 21:56:14 UTC, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > In the ppc64 big endian ABI, function symbols point to function > descriptors. The symbols which point to the function entry points > have a dot in front of the function name. Consequently, when the > ftrace filter mechanism searches for the symbol corresponding to > an entry point address, it gets the dot symbol. ... > > Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7132e2d669bd42c3783327f301 cheers