From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kbuild: kallsyms: update suffix ignore logic
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:02:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu-HkK96hz7zKQeJfeh2YiRY+qGaWkQdrSn0=n+P0qeHZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427721632-11665-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On 30 March 2015 at 15:20, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> Two patches that update the kallsyms ignore logic.
>
> Patch #1 adds logic to introduce symbols whose names end in (or equal)
> "_veneer". This prevent kallsyms generation errors on large ARM kernels
> where the emitted veneers will be different between the first and second
> pass, due to the fact that the size of the kallsyms region itself pushes
> the .text and .init.text sections further apart during the second pass.
>
> Patch #2 removes the handling of the "gcc[0-9]_compiled." symbol. It was
> only ever emitted by GCC v2.x which we don't support anymore anyway.
>
> This series is a followup to ' [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM large kernels'
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/13065), but the
> other issue addressed by patch #2 of that series will be deferred
> for now.
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (2):
> Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker
> Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols
>
> scripts/kallsyms.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 13:20 [PATCH 0/2] Kbuild: kallsyms: update suffix ignore logic Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-30 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-30 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-07 9:02 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2015-04-07 11:19 ` [PATCH 0/2] Kbuild: kallsyms: update suffix ignore logic Michal Marek
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