Re: [PATCH 9/9] perf tests: Use arch__compare_symbol_names to compare symbols

[Naveen N. Rao]

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 01:26:35PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > The symbol search called by machine__find_kernel_symbol_by_name
> > is using internally arch__compare_symbol_names function to compare
> > 2 symbol names, because different archs have different ways of
> > comparing symbols. Mostly for skipping '.' prefixes and similar.
> >
> > In test 1 when we try to find matching symbols in kallsyms and
> > vmlinux, by address and by symbol name. When either is found
> > we compare the pair symbol names  by simple strcmp, which is not
> > good enough for reasons explained in previous paragraph.
> >
> > On powerpc this can cause lockup, because even thought we found
> > the pair, the compared names are different and don't match
> > simple strcmp. Following code path is executed, that leads
> > to lockup:
>
> Added a:
>
>     Fixes: 031b84c407c3 ("perf probe ppc: Enable matching against dot symbols automatically")
>
> And CCed Naveen, the author of that patch, so that gets notified of this
> fix.

Thanks! This does fix the test on ppc64 BE. So:
Acked-and-Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

- Naveen