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perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on aarch64

Aarch64 ELF files use mapping symbols with special names $x, $d
to identify regions of Aarch64 code (see Aarch64 ELF ABI - "ARM
IHI 0056B", section "4.5.4 Mapping symbols").

The patch filters out these symbols at load time, similar to
"696b97a perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on ARM" changes
done for ARM before V8.

Also added handling of mapping symbols that has format
"$d.<any>" and similar for both cases.

Note we are not making difference between EM_ARM and
EM_AARCH64 mapping symbols instead code handles superset
of both.

Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422340442-4673-2-git-send-email-victor.kamensky@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

authored by

Victor Kamensky and committed by
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4886f2ca 8b72805f

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tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
··· 859 859 /* Reject ARM ELF "mapping symbols": these aren't unique and 860 860 * don't identify functions, so will confuse the profile 861 861 * output: */ 862 - if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM) { 863 - if (!strcmp(elf_name, "$a") || 864 - !strcmp(elf_name, "$d") || 865 - !strcmp(elf_name, "$t")) 862 + if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_ARM || ehdr.e_machine == EM_AARCH64) { 863 + if (elf_name[0] == '$' && strchr("adtx", elf_name[1]) 864 + && (elf_name[2] == '\0' || elf_name[2] == '.')) 866 865 continue; 867 866 } 868 867