[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>

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 */