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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2005-09-06 15:16:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-07 16:57:20 -0700 |
| commit | 6f00df24ee394f345a8789d3a2f98fc1d9195b9f (patch) | |
| tree | 5370b391ad05cd98bd189e163e209a4b076f4bb7 /scripts/kallsyms.c | |
| parent | 022a4a7bbdefdedc2706a13c81c832d8c3173c6d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6f00df24ee394f345a8789d3a2f98fc1d9195b9f.tar.gz lwn-6f00df24ee394f345a8789d3a2f98fc1d9195b9f.zip | |
[PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms
Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them
in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kallsyms.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kallsyms.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 1f53d4fc4c1d..d591578bd3b2 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s) else if (toupper(stype) == 'U' || is_arm_mapping_symbol(sym)) return -1; + /* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */ + else if (str[0] == '$') + return -1; /* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets * compressed together */ |