Re: [v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64

From	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64
Date	2016-04-28 16:30 +0200
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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 <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7132e2d669bd42c3783327f301

cheers

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[PATCH v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64 Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-04-26 00:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions  on ppc64 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-04-26 15:40 +0200
  Re: [v2] ftrace: Match dot symbols when searching functions on ppc64 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-04-28 16:30 +0200

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