[PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds

[PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds

[Masahiro Yamada]

This file contains symbol values, and was originally linked into
vmlinux, but I have no idea what it was actually used for.

Since commit 827880ec260b ("x86/um: thin archives build fix"), it is
not even linked.  Now it is completely orphan, and no problem has
been reported.  It is a proof that this file was not needed in the
first place.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

 arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore |  1 -
 arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile   | 16 ----------------
 2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore b/arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore
index 9cac6d0..f8b69d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-vdso-syms.lds
 vdso.lds
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
index 1000335..426681e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
@@ -53,22 +53,6 @@ $(vobjs): KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CFL)
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_vdso-note.o = -pg -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_um_vdso.o = -pg -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
 
-targets += vdso-syms.lds
-extra-$(VDSO64-y)			+= vdso-syms.lds
-
-#
-# Match symbols in the DSO that look like VDSO*; produce a file of constants.
-#
-sed-vdsosym := -e 's/^00*/0/' \
-	-e 's/^\([0-9a-fA-F]*\) . \(VDSO[a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)$$/\2 = 0x\1;/p'
-quiet_cmd_vdsosym = VDSOSYM $@
-define cmd_vdsosym
-	$(NM) $< | LC_ALL=C sed -n $(sed-vdsosym) | LC_ALL=C sort > $@
-endef
-
-$(obj)/%-syms.lds: $(obj)/%.so.dbg FORCE
-	$(call if_changed,vdsosym)
-
 #
 # The DSO images are built using a special linker script.
 #
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds

[Ingo Molnar]

* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:

> This file contains symbol values, and was originally linked into
> vmlinux, but I have no idea what it was actually used for.
> 
> Since commit 827880ec260b ("x86/um: thin archives build fix"), it is
> not even linked.  Now it is completely orphan, and no problem has
> been reported.  It is a proof that this file was not needed in the
> first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> ---
> 
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore |  1 -
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile   | 16 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo