From 5d7d18f5bc507b60d3d8967e2739d5e6ffdd630f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:59:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- Makefile | 4 ++++ init/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3e95d454285c..ad830bd45a4b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -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 diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f2f9b5362b48..7be4d3836745 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -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 -- 2.20.1