Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/6] kbuild: Put kallsyms into own section | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:17:05 +0100 |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Put the kallsyms information into an own .kallsyms section. This makes it easier to patch the kallsyms inside the executable. Otherwise it shouldn't change anything.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ++++ scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index bc2121f..6214f18 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -280,6 +280,10 @@ \ TRACEDATA \ \ + .kallsyms : AT(ADDR(.kallsyms) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ + *(.kallsyms) \ + } \ + \ /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \ __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab) = .; \ diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 56f5986..ceef756 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static void write_src(void) printf("#define ALGN .align 4\n"); printf("#endif\n"); - printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n"); + printf("\t.section .kallsyms, \"a\"\n"); /* Provide proper symbols relocatability by their '_text' * relativeness. The symbol names cannot be used to construct -- 1.8.5.2
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