[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>
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Ralf Baechle 2005-09-06 15:16:41 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 022a4a7bbd
commit 6f00df24ee

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@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
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 */