Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483.
And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80c
These stripping patches has caused a set of issues:
1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
Reported by: Ted, Davej + others
Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index e694afa..7b8b0f2 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -30,19 +30,20 @@
#define all_var 0
#endif
-extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[];
-extern const u8 kallsyms_names[];
+/* These will be re-linked against their real values during the second link stage */
+extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const u8 kallsyms_names[] __attribute__((weak));
/* tell the compiler that the count isn't in the small data section if the arch
* has one (eg: FRV)
*/
extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms
- __attribute__((__section__(".rodata")));
+__attribute__((weak, section(".rodata")));
-extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[];
-extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[];
+extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __attribute__((weak));
-extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[];
+extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[] __attribute__((weak));
static inline int is_kernel_inittext(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -167,6 +168,9 @@
unsigned long symbol_start = 0, symbol_end = 0;
unsigned long i, low, high, mid;
+ /* This kernel should never had been booted. */
+ BUG_ON(!kallsyms_addresses);
+
/* do a binary search on the sorted kallsyms_addresses array */
low = 0;
high = kallsyms_num_syms;