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    perf symbols: Function descriptor symbol lookup · 70c3856b
    Eric B Munson authored
    Currently symbol resolution does not work for 64-bit programs on architectures
    that use function descriptors such as ppc64.
    
    The problem is that a symbol doesn't point to a text address, it points to a
    data area that contains (amongst other things) a pointer to the text address.
    
    We look for a section called ".opd" which is the function descriptor area. To
    create the full symbol table, when we see a symbol in the function descriptor
    section we load the first pointer and use that as the text address.
    
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1276523793-15422-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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