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kbuild: filter away debug symbols from kernel symbols
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Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this:

0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2
0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0
0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0

in his System.map / kallsyms output.

Simple solution is to skip all debugging
symbols (they are marked 'N').

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Paulo Marques <[email protected]>
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions scripts/kallsyms.c
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Expand Up @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
/* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */
else if (str[0] == '$')
return -1;
/* exclude debugging symbols */
else if (stype == 'N')
return -1;

/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
* compressed together */
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion scripts/mksysmap
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# For System.map filter away:
# a - local absolute symbols
# U - undefined global symbols
# N - debugging symbols
# w - local weak symbols

# readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and
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# so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work.
# (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle).

$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2
$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2

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