user/sven/linux.git/scripts/kallsyms.c, branch tmp/leds/core

Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"

2009-01-14T20:38:20Z

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 Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL

2008-12-19T21:47:10Z

Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y. Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64) kernels I tested with. The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms- internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking stage. While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure here is. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: filter away debug symbols from kernel symbols

2008-05-19T18:07:58Z

Andi Kleen reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this: 0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2 0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0 0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0 in his System.map / kallsyms output. Simple solution is to skip all debugging symbols (they are marked 'N'). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Paulo Marques

kallsyms: nuke all ChangeLog, this should be logged by git

2008-04-30T15:29:31Z

Pointed out by Paulo: "When I wrote this initially, it was a mistake to add a Changelog in the first place, but I didn't know better at the time. If you're going to make changes to this file, please remove all the Changelog, instead of adding more entries to it. The 'Changelog' should be kept by the version control system, and not the source code itself." Cc: Paulo Marques Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu Acked-by: Paulo Marques Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

2008-02-06T18:41:07Z

When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak symbol. This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So, even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this. Mathieu says: I created a module in LTTng that uses kallsyms to get the symbol corresponding to a specific system call address. Unfortunately, all the unimplemented syscalls were all referring to the (same) weak symbol identifying an unrelated system call rather that sys_ni (or whatever non-weak symbol would be expected). Kallsyms was dumbly returning the first symbol that matched. This patch makes sure kallsyms returns the non-weak symbol when there is one, which seems to be the expected result. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Looks-great-to: Rusty Russell Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

remove support for un-needed _extratext section

2008-02-06T18:41:01Z

When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr() called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes _extra_text support. For some history (provided by Jon): http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Robin Getz Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Jon Loeliger Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

2007-07-19T21:28:19Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (33 commits) xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc cris: use DATA_DATA in cris kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c kbuild: use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls unconditionally kconfig: reset generated values only if Kconfig and .config agree. kbuild: fix the warning when running make tags kconfig: strip 'CONFIG_' automatically in kernel configuration search kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init modpost white list pattern adjustment kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text kbuild: consolidate section checks kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it ...

kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'

2007-07-17T17:23:03Z

KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for the trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when allocating buffer. This is nonsense and error-prone. Moreover, when the caller forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by corrupting the stack because the last position of the buffer is always cleared to zero. This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code accordingly. * off-by-one bug in asm-powerpc/kprobes.h::kprobe_lookup_name() macro is fixed. * Where MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were used together, MODULE_NAME_LEN was treated as if it didn't include space for the trailing '\0'. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Paulo Marques Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c

2007-07-17T12:36:08Z

The only in-kernel user of "memmem" is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens. This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU extension available. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

[PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata

2006-12-08T16:28:37Z

Kallsyms data is never written to, so it can as well benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds