Commit 2216cf68 authored by Hui Su's avatar Hui Su Committed by Masahiro Yamada
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scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support



update the comments of kallsyms support.

Fixes: af73d78b ("kbuild: Remove debug info from kallsyms linking")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent a3c7ca2b
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@@ -369,14 +369,14 @@ if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then
	# kallsyms support
	# Generate section listing all symbols and add it into vmlinux
	# It's a three step process:
	# 1)  Link .tmp_vmlinux1 so it has all symbols and sections,
	# 1)  Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 so it has all symbols and sections,
	#     but __kallsyms is empty.
	#     Running kallsyms on that gives us .tmp_kallsyms1.o with
	#     the right size
	# 2)  Link .tmp_vmlinux2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
	# 2)  Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
	#     the right size, but due to the added section, some
	#     addresses have shifted.
	#     From here, we generate a correct .tmp_kallsyms2.o
	#     From here, we generate a correct .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
	# 3)  That link may have expanded the kernel image enough that
	#     more linker branch stubs / trampolines had to be added, which
	#     introduces new names, which further expands kallsyms. Do another