perf probe: Allow weak symbols to be probed
It currently prevents adding probes in weak symbols. But there're cases that given name is an only weak symbol so that we cannot add probe. $ perf probe -x /usr/lib/libc.so.6 -a calloc Failed to find symbol calloc in /usr/lib/libc-2.21.so Error: Failed to add events. $ nm /usr/lib/libc.so.6 | grep calloc 000000000007b1f0 t __calloc 000000000007b1f0 T __libc_calloc 000000000007b1f0 W calloc This change will result in duplicate probes when strong and weak symbols co-exist in a binary. But I think it's not a big problem since probes at the weak symbol will never be hit anyway. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150306073129.6904.41078.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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