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kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux

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Make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux as
they cause vmlinux to balloon when CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y and they cause
dump_stack() and get_wchan() to produce useless information under some
circumstances.

With this we add a config option (CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS) that will cause
the build to supply -X to the linker to tell it to strip temporary local
symbols.

This doesn't seem to cause gdb any problems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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David Howells 2009-03-04 11:59:07 -08:00 committed by Sam Ravnborg
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commit 5d7d18f5bc
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Makefile
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@ -597,6 +597,10 @@ LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID = $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\
LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS),y)
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -X
endif
# Default kernel image to build when no specific target is given.
# KBUILD_IMAGE may be overruled on the command line or
# set in the environment

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init/Kconfig
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@ -808,6 +808,14 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
default n
help
Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
get_wchan() and suchlike.
config HOTPLUG
bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
default y