Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <redacted>
---
Changes from the previous patchset:
Introduced arch helper to override the way probe function filter works.

 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile            |  1 +
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/config/Makefile                  |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c               | 10 +++++-----
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.h               |  5 +++++
 5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 6f7782b..1c3d435 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/Makefile

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS := 1
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/dwarf-regs.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/skip-callchain-idx.o
 endif
+LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/sym-handling.o
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/header.o

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a77825
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/sym-handling.c

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * Special symbol handling for PowerPC:
+ * - Handle dot symbols on ABIv1
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Naveen N Rao, IBM Corporation.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include "map.h"
+#include "symbol.h"
+#include "probe-event.h"
+
+int probe_function_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused, struct symbol *sym)
+{
+	if (sym->binding == STB_GLOBAL || sym->binding == STB_LOCAL) {
+		if ((strcmp(looking_function_name, sym->name) == 0) ||
+		    (sym->name[0] == '.' && looking_function_name[0] != '.' &&
+		     strcmp(looking_function_name, sym->name+1) == 0)) {
+			num_matched_functions++;
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
+	return 1;
+}

diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index 5d4b039..35cf934 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile

@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
   ifndef NO_DWARF
     CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SKIP_CALLCHAIN_IDX
   endif
+  CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ARCH_SYMBOL_HANDLING

 endif
 
 ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 74b7fef..7eb9b27 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
 #define PERFPROBE_GROUP "probe"
 
 bool probe_event_dry_run;	/* Dry run flag */
+char *looking_function_name;
+int num_matched_functions;
 
 #define semantic_error(msg ...) pr_err("Semantic error :" msg)
 

@@ -2210,11 +2212,8 @@ static int __add_probe_trace_events(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static char *looking_function_name;
-static int num_matched_functions;
-
-static int probe_function_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused,
-				      struct symbol *sym)
+#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_SYMBOL_HANDLING
+int probe_function_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused, struct symbol *sym)
 {
 	if ((sym->binding == STB_GLOBAL || sym->binding == STB_LOCAL) &&
 	    strcmp(looking_function_name, sym->name) == 0) {

@@ -2223,6 +2222,7 @@ static int probe_function_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused,
 	}
 	return 1;
 }
+#endif /* HAVE_ARCH_SYMBOL_HANDLING */

 
 #define strdup_or_goto(str, label)	\
 	({ char *__p = strdup(str); if (!__p) goto label; __p; })

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
index e01e994..8564451 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 #include "strfilter.h"
 
 extern bool probe_event_dry_run;
+extern char *looking_function_name;
+extern int num_matched_functions;

 
 /* kprobe-tracer and uprobe-tracer tracing point */
 struct probe_trace_point {

@@ -136,6 +138,9 @@ extern int show_available_vars(struct perf_probe_event *pevs, int npevs,
 extern int show_available_funcs(const char *module, struct strfilter *filter,
 				bool user);
 
+extern int probe_function_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused,
+					struct symbol *sym);
+