Commit 6f00df24 authored by Ralf Baechle's avatar Ralf Baechle Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 022a4a7b

scripts/kallsyms.c

+3 −0
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@@ -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 */