[PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon May 2 18:28:18 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections
> so that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually
> worked out what we're running on today. 
> 
> This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between
> _[se]text or _[se]inittext. Rather than teaching kallsyms about the
> various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers
> for kallsyms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> 
> 
> --- linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds~	2005-05-01 10:43:10.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds	2005-05-02 08:06:52.000000000 +0100

Bah. s/vmlinux.lds/vmlinux.lds.S/

--- linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~	2005-05-01 10:43:10.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2005-05-02 08:06:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ SECTIONS
   __init_end = .;
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
+  _sextratext = .;
   __pmac_begin = .;
   .pmac.text : { *(.pmac.text) }
   .pmac.data : { *(.pmac.data) }
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ SECTIONS
   .openfirmware.data : { *(.openfirmware.data) }
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   __openfirmware_end = .;
+  _eextratext = .;
 
   __bss_start = .;
   .bss :
--- linux-2.6.11/include/asm-generic/sections.h~	2005-03-02 07:37:31.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.11/include/asm-generic/sections.h	2005-05-02 08:43:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[];
 extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[];
 extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[];
 extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[];
+extern char _sextratext[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern char _eextratext[] __attribute__((weak));
 extern char _end[];
 
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_ */
--- linux-2.6.11/scripts/kallsyms.c~	2005-03-02 07:38:33.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.11/scripts/kallsyms.c	2005-05-02 08:09:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct sym_entry {
 
 static struct sym_entry *table;
 static int size, cnt;
-static unsigned long long _stext, _etext, _sinittext, _einittext;
+static unsigned long long _stext, _etext, _sinittext, _einittext, _sextratext, _eextratext;
 static int all_symbols = 0;
 
 struct token {
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *
 		_sinittext = s->addr;
 	else if (strcmp(str, "_einittext") == 0)
 		_einittext = s->addr;
+	else if (strcmp(str, "_sextratext") == 0)
+		_sextratext = s->addr;
+	else if (strcmp(str, "_eextratext") == 0)
+		_eextratext = s->addr;
 	else if (toupper(s->type) == 'A')
 	{
 		/* Keep these useful absolute symbols */
@@ -182,16 +186,18 @@ symbol_valid(struct sym_entry *s)
 	 * and inittext sections are discarded */
 	if (!all_symbols) {
 		if ((s->addr < _stext || s->addr > _etext)
-		    && (s->addr < _sinittext || s->addr > _einittext))
+		    && (s->addr < _sinittext || s->addr > _einittext) 
+		    && (s->addr < _sextratext || s->addr > _eextratext))
 			return 0;
 		/* Corner case.  Discard any symbols with the same value as
-		 * _etext or _einittext, they can move between pass 1 and 2
-		 * when the kallsyms data is added.  If these symbols move then
-		 * they may get dropped in pass 2, which breaks the kallsyms
-		 * rules.
+		 * _etext _einittext or _eextratext; they can move between pass 
+		 * 1 and 2 when the kallsyms data is added.  If these symbols 
+		 * move then they may get dropped in pass 2, which breaks the
+		 * kallsyms rules.
 		 */
 		if ((s->addr == _etext && strcmp(s->sym + 1, "_etext")) ||
-		    (s->addr == _einittext && strcmp(s->sym + 1, "_einittext")))
+		    (s->addr == _einittext && strcmp(s->sym + 1, "_einittext")) ||
+		    (s->addr == _eextratext && strcmp(s->sym + 1, "_eextratext")))
 			return 0;
 	}
 
--- linux-2.6.11/kernel/kallsyms.c~	2005-05-01 10:37:45.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11/kernel/kallsyms.c	2005-05-02 08:42:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ static inline int is_kernel_inittext(uns
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int is_kernel_extratext(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sextratext
+	    && addr <= (unsigned long)_eextratext)
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_etext)
@@ -169,7 +177,7 @@ const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned lon
 	namebuf[0] = 0;
 
 	if ((all_var && is_kernel(addr)) ||
-	    (!all_var && (is_kernel_text(addr) || is_kernel_inittext(addr)))) {
+	    (!all_var && (is_kernel_text(addr) || is_kernel_inittext(addr) || is_kernel_extratext(addr)))) {
 		unsigned long symbol_end=0;
 
 		/* do a binary search on the sorted kallsyms_addresses array */

-- 
dwmw2




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