[PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms
Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them
in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 1f53d4f..d591578 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@
else if (toupper(stype) == 'U' ||
is_arm_mapping_symbol(sym))
return -1;
+ /* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */
+ else if (str[0] == '$')
+ return -1;
/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
* compressed together */
