user/sven/linux.git/scripts/mksysmap, branch v2.6.23.3

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2006-01-09T23:10:13Z

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

arm: Fix ARM kernel build with permitted binutils versions

2004-10-27T02:36:12Z

All ARM binutils versions post 2.11.90 contains an extra "feature" which interferes with the kernel in various ways - extra "mapping symbols" in the ELF symbol table '$a', '$t' and '$d'. This causes two problems: 1. Since '$a' symbols have the same value as function names, this causes anything which uses the kallsyms infrastructure to report wrong values. 2. programs which parse System.map do not expect symbols to start with '$'. Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg ===== kernel/module.c 1.120 vs edited =====

kbuild: Remove check for undefined symbols in vmlinux

2004-08-19T01:05:28Z

Russell King reported that some gcc / bin-utils combination may result in undefined symbols in vmlinux and implemented a check for that. Though the cause is very valid this check has proved to be a real pain for other users, especially sparc and um. Short term a similar check is asked to be implemented in arch/arm*/Makefile and long-term to bail out if too old gcc / bin-utils is used. Long term plan awaits a new gcc / bin-utils release. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: __crc_* symbols in System.map

2004-08-13T22:14:30Z

David S. Miller wrote: Shouldn't we be grepping __crc_ symbols out of the System.map file? For one thing, these can confuse readprofile. It's algorithm is to start at _stext, then stop when it sees a line in the System.map which is not text (mode is one of 'T' 't' 'W' or 'w') It will exit early if there are some intermixed __crc_* things in there (since they are are mode 'A'). For example, in my current sparc64 kernel I have this: 00000000004cef80 t do_split 00000000004cf2a0 t add_dirent_to_buf 00000000004cf5a7 A __crc_init_special_inode 00000000004cf640 t make_indexed_dir 00000000004cf900 t ext3_add_entry So no symbols after add_dirent_to_buf will be shown in the profiling output of readprofile. Implementation ported to mksysmap by Sam. Included two System.map related fixes: - Print "SYSMAP System.map" during build - Sort symbols in System.map Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild/sparc: Use new generic mksysmap script to generate System.map

2004-08-08T11:34:43Z

o Introduced usage of the mksysmap script. o Improved the non-verbose output to look like this: BTFIX arch/sparc/boot/btfix.S AS arch/sparc/boot/btfix.o LD arch/sparc/boot/image SYSMAP arch/sparc/boot/System.map o No longer generate System.map for each build o Use normal AS rule to compile btfix.S Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: Check for undefined symbols in vmlinux

2004-08-07T23:35:44Z

At least one bin-utils version for ARM is know to ignore undefined symbols when performing the final link of vmlinux. Add an explicit check for undefined symbols to catch this. The check is made in combination with generating the System.map file and the actual algorithm is moved to a small shell script - mksysmap. External symbols with three leading underscores are ignored - sparc uses them for the BTFIXUP logic. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg