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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/symbol.c29
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 1b85cc1422a9..623094e866fd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ again:
}
}
-void symbols__fixup_end(struct rb_root_cached *symbols,
- bool is_kallsyms __maybe_unused)
+/* Update zero-sized symbols using the address of the next symbol */
+void symbols__fixup_end(struct rb_root_cached *symbols, bool is_kallsyms)
{
struct rb_node *nd, *prevnd = rb_first_cached(symbols);
struct symbol *curr, *prev;
@@ -232,8 +232,29 @@ void symbols__fixup_end(struct rb_root_cached *symbols,
prev = curr;
curr = rb_entry(nd, struct symbol, rb_node);
- if (prev->end == prev->start || prev->end != curr->start)
- arch__symbols__fixup_end(prev, curr);
+ /*
+ * On some architecture kernel text segment start is located at
+ * some low memory address, while modules are located at high
+ * memory addresses (or vice versa). The gap between end of
+ * kernel text segment and beginning of first module's text
+ * segment is very big. Therefore do not fill this gap and do
+ * not assign it to the kernel dso map (kallsyms).
+ *
+ * In kallsyms, it determines module symbols using '[' character
+ * like in:
+ * ffffffffc1937000 T hdmi_driver_init [snd_hda_codec_hdmi]
+ */
+ if (prev->end == prev->start) {
+ /* Last kernel/module symbol mapped to end of page */
+ if (is_kallsyms && (!strchr(prev->name, '[') !=
+ !strchr(curr->name, '[')))
+ prev->end = roundup(prev->end + 4096, 4096);
+ else
+ prev->end = curr->start;
+
+ pr_debug4("%s sym:%s end:%#" PRIx64 "\n",
+ __func__, prev->name, prev->end);
+ }
}
/* Last entry */