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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/perf.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index e0279babe0c0..2f19e03c5c40 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -467,15 +467,21 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
* - cannot execute it externally (since it would just do
* the same thing over again)
*
- * So we just directly call the internal command handler, and
- * die if that one cannot handle it.
+ * So we just directly call the internal command handler. If that one
+ * fails to handle this, then maybe we just run a renamed perf binary
+ * that contains a dash in its name. To handle this scenario, we just
+ * fall through and ignore the "xxxx" part of the command string.
*/
if (strstarts(cmd, "perf-")) {
cmd += 5;
argv[0] = cmd;
handle_internal_command(argc, argv);
- fprintf(stderr, "cannot handle %s internally", cmd);
- goto out;
+ /*
+ * If the command is handled, the above function does not
+ * return undo changes and fall through in such a case.
+ */
+ cmd -= 5;
+ argv[0] = cmd;
}
if (strstarts(cmd, "trace")) {
#ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT