module: Sort exported symbols

This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk").  Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").

The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.

This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index bd297a20ab9..b27445e00b6 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -274,70 +274,70 @@
         /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */                       \
         __ksymtab         : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {         \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab) = .;                  \
-                *(__ksymtab)                                            \
+                *(SORT(___ksymtab+*))                                   \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___ksymtab) = .;                   \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */                     \
         __ksymtab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {     \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab_gpl) = .;              \
-                *(__ksymtab_gpl)                                        \
+                *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*))                               \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___ksymtab_gpl) = .;               \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: Normal unused symbols */                \
         __ksymtab_unused  : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_unused) - LOAD_OFFSET) {  \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab_unused) = .;           \
-                *(__ksymtab_unused)                                     \
+                *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused+*))                            \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___ksymtab_unused) = .;            \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only unused symbols */              \
         __ksymtab_unused_gpl : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_unused_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab_unused_gpl) = .;       \
-                *(__ksymtab_unused_gpl)                                 \
+                *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused_gpl+*))                        \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___ksymtab_unused_gpl) = .;        \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-future-only symbols */              \
         __ksymtab_gpl_future : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_gpl_future) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab_gpl_future) = .;       \
-                *(__ksymtab_gpl_future)                                 \
+                *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl_future+*))                        \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___ksymtab_gpl_future) = .;        \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */                       \
         __kcrctab         : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {         \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___kcrctab) = .;                  \
-                *(__kcrctab)                                            \
+                *(SORT(___kcrctab+*))                                   \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___kcrctab) = .;                   \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */                     \
         __kcrctab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {     \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___kcrctab_gpl) = .;              \
-                *(__kcrctab_gpl)                                        \
+                *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*))                               \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___kcrctab_gpl) = .;               \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: Normal unused symbols */                \
         __kcrctab_unused  : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_unused) - LOAD_OFFSET) {  \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___kcrctab_unused) = .;           \
-                *(__kcrctab_unused)                                     \
+                *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused+*))                            \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___kcrctab_unused) = .;            \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only unused symbols */              \
         __kcrctab_unused_gpl : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_unused_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___kcrctab_unused_gpl) = .;       \
-                *(__kcrctab_unused_gpl)                                 \
+                *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused_gpl+*))                        \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___kcrctab_unused_gpl) = .;        \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-future-only symbols */              \
         __kcrctab_gpl_future : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_gpl_future) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___kcrctab_gpl_future) = .;       \
-                *(__kcrctab_gpl_future)                                 \
+                *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl_future+*))                        \
                 VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___kcrctab_gpl_future) = .;        \
         }                                                               \
                                                                         \