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Commit 6f00df24 authored Sep 06, 2005 by Ralf Baechle Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 07, 2005

[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>

parent 022a4a7b

scripts/kallsyms.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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 */