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perf symbols: Accept an alias when looking for "_text"
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As it is in PARISC64:

parisc:~# uname -a
Linux parisc 2.6.33-rc4-tip+ #1 SMP Thu Jan 14 13:33:34 BRST
2010 parisc64 GNU/Linux parisc:~# grep -w _text /proc/kallsyms
0000000040100000 A _text
parisc:~# grep 0000000040100000 /proc/kallsyms
0000000040100000 T stext
0000000040100000 T _stext
0000000040100000 A _text
parisc:~#

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263586107-1756-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jan 16, 2010
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion tools/perf/util/event.c
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Expand Up @@ -227,7 +227,12 @@ static int find_symbol_cb(void *arg, const char *name, char type, u64 start)
{
struct process_symbol_args *args = arg;

if (!symbol_type__is_a(type, MAP__FUNCTION) || strcmp(name, args->name))
/*
* Must be a function or at least an alias, as in PARISC64, where "_text" is
* an 'A' to the same address as "_stext".
*/
if (!(symbol_type__is_a(type, MAP__FUNCTION) ||
type == 'A') || strcmp(name, args->name))
return 0;

args->start = start;
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