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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-03-04 20:59:07 +0100
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2009-04-11 08:18:10 +0200
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parentkbuild: remove pointless strdup() on arguments passed to new_module() in modpost (diff)
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kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux
Make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux as they cause vmlinux to balloon when CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y and they cause dump_stack() and get_wchan() to produce useless information under some circumstances. With this we add a config option (CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS) that will cause the build to supply -X to the linker to tell it to strip temporary local symbols. This doesn't seem to cause gdb any problems. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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