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authorKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>2022-08-08 17:02:58 -0400
committerSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>2024-02-10 16:31:14 -0800
commit1eb8ef266be7f6c3dd219f9d526e9c63ebfd897d (patch)
treeabe3908a5aeae9ac98f97235d4d7e1c923f1cf33
parent47750c7235a0e6d8970ac4ece8b1c5d9fb5dcd5d (diff)
scripts/kallysms: Always include __start and __stop symbols
These symbols are used to denote section boundaries: by always including them we can unify loading sections from modules with loading built-in sections, which leads to some significant cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
-rw-r--r--scripts/kallsyms.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 653b92f6d4c8..47978efe4797 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ static int symbol_in_range(const struct sym_entry *s,
return 0;
}
+static bool string_starts_with(const char *s, const char *prefix)
+{
+ return strncmp(s, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0;
+}
+
static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s)
{
const char *name = sym_name(s);
@@ -211,6 +216,14 @@ static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s)
/* if --all-symbols is not specified, then symbols outside the text
* and inittext sections are discarded */
if (!all_symbols) {
+ /*
+ * Symbols starting with __start and __stop are used to denote
+ * section boundaries, and should always be included:
+ */
+ if (string_starts_with(name, "__start_") ||
+ string_starts_with(name, "__stop_"))
+ return 1;
+
if (symbol_in_range(s, text_ranges,
ARRAY_SIZE(text_ranges)) == 0)
return 0;