perf symbols: Allow symbol alias when loading map for symbol name
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Mar 2015 07:31:27 +0000 (16:31 +0900)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:39:54 +0000 (12:39 -0300)
commit680d926a8cb08dd9cf173e2bb93d4a4477771949
tree9bd4335df12510717562e90779231a14c1d8be1c
parent0687eba7872d7dbe01b074c54359315e97502360
perf symbols: Allow symbol alias when loading map for symbol name

When perf probe tries to add a probe in a binary using symbol name, it
sometimes failed since some symbols were discard during loading dso.

When it resolves an address to symbol, it'd be better to have just one
symbol at given address.  But for finding address from symbol, it'd be
better to keep all names (including aliases).

So allow tools to state that they want to allow aliases via
symbol_conf.allow_aliases.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150306073127.6904.3232.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ Original patch passwd allow_alias to many functions, use symbol_conf.allow_aliases instead ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
tools/perf/util/symbol.h