Continuing kallsyms failures - large kernels, XIP kernels, and large XIP kernels

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jan 30 07:32:54 PST 2015


This is the hack I'm using to avoid the veneers appearing in the kallsyms
data.  This solves my randconfig failure I saw last night - but obviously
is not bullet proof as it'll find _veneer anywhere in the symbol name.

 scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index c6d33bd15b04..eea599c701f5 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
 	/* exclude debugging symbols */
 	else if (stype == 'N')
 		return -1;
+	else if (strstr(sym, "_veneer"))
+		return -1;
 
 	/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
 	 * compressed together */

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