Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:37:11 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc |
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:28:10PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > b) is there any reason why we can't copy symbol table out of module > >ourselves (instead of setting SHF_ALLOC on it) and trim the crap out of > >it? Note that __crc_... is not the only junk in there - you don't need > >(or want) to keep the things like undefs for /proc/kallsyms purposes. > >And modules *using* an exported symbol are more common that modules exporting > >one... Why not copy it at add_kallsyms() time, skipping the junk we don't > >want anyway? > > Would certainly be doable, but would seem reasonable only if it's a small > set of easily recognizable symbols. If you look at scripts/strip-symbols, > you may agree that it's better to do this at build time...
I will not. Undefined ones are far more common than any of those...
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