From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:16:41 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~725
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f00df24ee394f345a8789d3a2f98fc1d9195b9f;p=linux-2.6

[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>
---

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 1f53d4fc4c..d591578bd3 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -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 */