[PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.
Andrew Morton
akpm at osdl.org
Tue May 3 11:37:33 EST 2005
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> 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.
>
Current kernels have fixes in exactly this area. Please redo, retest, resend.
>
> --- 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
2.6.11? Wow.
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