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| author | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2009-01-14 21:38:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2009-01-14 21:38:20 +0100 |
| commit | 2ea038917bbdd51a7ae4a898c6a04641324dd033 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a6f8b1db4d097d260449f88c267e39ab9d2bb3f /kernel/kallsyms.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel... (diff) | |
| download | linux-2ea038917bbdd51a7ae4a898c6a04641324dd033.tar.xz linux-2ea038917bbdd51a7ae4a898c6a04641324dd033.zip | |
Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483.
And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80c
These stripping patches has caused a set of issues:
1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
Reported by: Ted, Davej + others
Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kallsyms.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c index e694afa0eb8c..7b8b0f21a5b1 100644 --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -30,19 +30,20 @@ #define all_var 0 #endif -extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[]; -extern const u8 kallsyms_names[]; +/* These will be re-linked against their real values during the second link stage */ +extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[] __attribute__((weak)); +extern const u8 kallsyms_names[] __attribute__((weak)); /* tell the compiler that the count isn't in the small data section if the arch * has one (eg: FRV) */ extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms - __attribute__((__section__(".rodata"))); +__attribute__((weak, section(".rodata"))); -extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[]; -extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[]; +extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __attribute__((weak)); +extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __attribute__((weak)); -extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[]; +extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[] __attribute__((weak)); static inline int is_kernel_inittext(unsigned long addr) { @@ -167,6 +168,9 @@ static unsigned long get_symbol_pos(unsigned long addr, unsigned long symbol_start = 0, symbol_end = 0; unsigned long i, low, high, mid; + /* This kernel should never had been booted. */ + BUG_ON(!kallsyms_addresses); + /* do a binary search on the sorted kallsyms_addresses array */ low = 0; high = kallsyms_num_syms; |