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* Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"Sam Ravnborg2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483. And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL") 9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80c These stripping patches has caused a set of issues: 1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2 Reported by: Wenji 2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others 3) The installed modules increased a lot in size Reported by: Ted, Davej + others Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALLJan Beulich2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y. Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64) kernels I tested with. The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms- internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking stage. While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure here is. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* kbuild: filter away debug symbols from kernel symbolsSam Ravnborg2008-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this: 0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2 0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0 0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0 in his System.map / kallsyms output. Simple solution is to skip all debugging symbols (they are marked 'N'). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
* kallsyms: nuke all ChangeLog, this should be logged by gitBryan Wu2008-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pointed out by Paulo: "When I wrote this initially, it was a mistake to add a Changelog in the first place, but I didn't know better at the time. If you're going to make changes to this file, please remove all the Changelog, instead of adding more entries to it. The 'Changelog' should be kept by the version control system, and not the source code itself." Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kallsyms should prefer non weak symbolsPaulo Marques2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak symbol. This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So, even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this. Mathieu says: I created a module in LTTng that uses kallsyms to get the symbol corresponding to a specific system call address. Unfortunately, all the unimplemented syscalls were all referring to the (same) weak symbol identifying an unrelated system call rather that sys_ni (or whatever non-weak symbol would be expected). Kallsyms was dumbly returning the first symbol that matched. This patch makes sure kallsyms returns the non-weak symbol when there is one, which seems to be the expected result. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Looks-great-to: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* remove support for un-needed _extratext sectionRobin Getz2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr() called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes _extra_text support. For some history (provided by Jon): http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2007-07-19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (33 commits) xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc cris: use DATA_DATA in cris kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c kbuild: use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls unconditionally kconfig: reset generated values only if Kconfig and .config agree. kbuild: fix the warning when running make tags kconfig: strip 'CONFIG_' automatically in kernel configuration search kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init modpost white list pattern adjustment kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text kbuild: consolidate section checks kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it ...
| * kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.cPaulo Marques2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only in-kernel user of "memmem" is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens. This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU extension available. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'Tejun Heo2007-07-17
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for the trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when allocating buffer. This is nonsense and error-prone. Moreover, when the caller forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by corrupting the stack because the last position of the buffer is always cleared to zero. This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code accordingly. * off-by-one bug in asm-powerpc/kprobes.h::kprobe_lookup_name() macro is fixed. * Where MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were used together, MODULE_NAME_LEN was treated as if it didn't include space for the trailing '\0'. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodataJan Beulich2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | Kallsyms data is never written to, so it can as well benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Fix kallsyms on avr32 after relocatable kernel ↵Vivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | changes o On some platforms like avr32, section init comes before .text and not necessarily a symbol's relative position w.r.t _text is positive. In such cases assembler detects the overflow and emits warning. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbolsEric W. Biederman2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported from their object files. Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't define it otherwise linker will fail. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] kallsyms: handle malloc() failureJesper Juhl2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | This fixes coverity bugs #398 and #397 Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsymsRalf Baechle2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] kallsyms: change compression algorithmPaulo Marques2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the way the compression algorithm works. The base algorithm is similiar to the previous but we force the compressed token size to 2. Having a fixed size compressed token allows for a lot of optimizations, and that in turn allows this code to run over *all* the symbols faster than it did before over just a subset. Having it work over all the symbols will make it behave better when symbols change positions between passes, and the "inconsistent kallsyms" messages should become less frequent. In my tests the compression ratio was degraded by about 0.5%, but the results will depend greatly on the number of symbols to compress. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kbuild: signed char fixes for scriptsJ.A. Magallon2005-07-27
| | | | | | This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.David Woodhouse2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections so that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually worked out what we're running on today. This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between _[se]text or _[se]inittext. Rather than teaching kallsyms about the various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers for kallsyms. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kallsyms C_SYMBOL_PREFIX supportYoshinori Sato2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | kallsyms does not consider SYMBOL_PREFIX of C. Consequently it does not work on architectures using that prefix character (h8300, v850). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!