[PATCH v2 07/21] kallsyms: reimplement mksysmap in C

Markus Elfring Markus.Elfring at web.de
Mon Sep 14 10:01:26 PDT 2026


> mksysmap is a sed script consisting of 30 patterns which link-vmlinux.sh
> uses to generate *.syms files, and which kallsyms is then called against to
> generate *.kallsyms files, with the final vmlinux build ultimately
> generating System.map.
…
> This is unnecessary, instead have kallsyms simply read the ELF file
> directly making use of the existing elf-parse library in scripts/.
…

Are there further opportunities for parallel data processing for an improved
processing pipeline in this software area?

Regards,
Markus



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