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| author | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2019-11-24 01:04:33 +0900 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2019-11-25 21:03:06 +0900 |
| commit | e0109042cc4ee12b3689e29c872c1436e0424c69 (patch) | |
| tree | be35aa38bd1e7eda70b38438eaf2318cbc67c22d /scripts/kallsyms.c | |
| parent | f34ea0291029781810ca4c213713dc6b4a686322 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e0109042cc4ee12b3689e29c872c1436e0424c69.tar.gz lwn-e0109042cc4ee12b3689e29c872c1436e0424c69.zip | |
scripts/kallsyms: remove redundant is_arm_mapping_symbol()
Since commit 6f00df24ee39 ("[PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms"),
all symbols starting '$' are ignored.
is_arm_mapping_symbol() particularly ignores $a, $t, etc. but it is
redundant.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kallsyms.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kallsyms.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index c9efb67c6ecb..14a50c8d3f34 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -74,16 +74,6 @@ static void usage(void) exit(1); } -/* - * This ignores the intensely annoying "mapping symbols" found - * in ARM ELF files: $a, $t and $d. - */ -static int is_arm_mapping_symbol(const char *str) -{ - return str[0] == '$' && strchr("axtd", str[1]) - && (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.'); -} - static int check_symbol_range(const char *sym, unsigned long long addr, struct addr_range *ranges, int entries) { @@ -139,10 +129,13 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s) return -1; } - else if (toupper(stype) == 'U' || - is_arm_mapping_symbol(sym)) + else if (toupper(stype) == 'U') return -1; - /* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */ + /* + * Ignore generated symbols such as: + * - mapping symbols in ARM ELF files ($a, $t, and $d) + * - MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) + */ else if (sym[0] == '$') return -1; /* exclude debugging symbols */ |