tree 9951ca2af2675b10ece4405b45257f19d71af6e3
parent e94142a67f8bad494c593f0a07c9fc2fbec98c0e
author Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> 1236928226 +0800
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1237020904 +0100

kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name

Impact: bugfix, output more reliable symbol lookup result

Debug tools(dump_stack(), ftrace...) are like to print out symbols.
But it is always print out the first aliased symbol.(Aliased symbols
are symbols with the same address), and the first aliased symbol is
sometime not proper.

 # echo function_graph > current_tracer
 # cat trace
......
 1)   1.923 us    |    select_nohz_load_balancer();
 1) + 76.692 us   |  }
 1)               |  default_idle() {
 1)   ==========> |    __irqentry_text_start() {
 1)   0.000 us    |      native_apic_mem_write();
 1)               |      irq_enter() {
 1)   0.000 us    |        idle_cpu();
 1)               |        tick_check_idle() {
 1)   0.000 us    |          tick_check_oneshot_broadcast();
 1)               |          tick_nohz_stop_idle() {
......

It's very embarrassing, it ouputs "__irqentry_text_start()",
actually, it should output "smp_apic_timer_interrupt()".
(these two symbol are the same address, but "__irqentry_text_start"
is deemed to the first aliased symbol by scripts/kallsyms)

This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second
aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first.

Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is
guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols
defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol.

And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided"
criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
LKML-Reference: <49BA06E2.7080807@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>