Commit aab34ac8 authored by Sam Ravnborg's avatar Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: filter away debug symbols from kernel symbols

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: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
parent 1f5d3a6b
...@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s) ...@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
/* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */ /* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */
else if (str[0] == '$') else if (str[0] == '$')
return -1; return -1;
/* exclude debugging symbols */
else if (stype == 'N')
return -1;
/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets /* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
* compressed together */ * compressed together */
......
...@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ ...@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
# For System.map filter away: # For System.map filter away:
# a - local absolute symbols # a - local absolute symbols
# U - undefined global symbols # U - undefined global symbols
# N - debugging symbols
# w - local weak symbols # w - local weak symbols
# readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and # readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and
...@@ -40,5 +41,5 @@ ...@@ -40,5 +41,5 @@
# so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work. # so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work.
# (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle). # (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle).
$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2 $NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2
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