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>

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;