Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:40:30 +0000 | | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc |
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>>> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> 07.01.09 15:37 >>> >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...
Undefined ones could certainly be stripped out there (while they definitely can't be at build time).
Jan
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