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, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/module-common.lds b/scripts/module-common.lds
index 47a1f9ae0ede..0865b3e752be 100644
--- a/scripts/module-common.lds
+++ b/scripts/module-common.lds
@@ -5,4 +5,15 @@
  */
 SECTIONS {
         /DISCARD/ : { *(.discard) }
+
+        __ksymtab               : { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) }
+        __ksymtab_gpl           : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) }
+        __ksymtab_unused        : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused+*)) }
+        __ksymtab_unused_gpl    : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused_gpl+*)) }
+        __ksymtab_gpl_future    : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl_future+*)) }
+        __kcrctab               : { *(SORT(___kcrctab+*)) }
+        __kcrctab_gpl           : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)) }
+        __kcrctab_unused        : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused+*)) }
+        __kcrctab_unused_gpl    : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused_gpl+*)) }
+        __kcrctab_gpl_future    : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl_future+*)) }
 }