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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 /scripts/mksysmap | |
| 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 'scripts/mksysmap')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/mksysmap | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap index 1db316a3712b..6e133a0bae7a 100644 --- a/scripts/mksysmap +++ b/scripts/mksysmap @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ # readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and # continue until it finds a symbol which is not either of 'T', 't', -# 'W' or 'w'. +# 'W' or 'w'. __crc_ are 'A' and placed in the middle +# so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work. +# (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle). + +$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2 -$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2 |