linux_dsm_epyc7002/scripts
Paulo Marques f2df3f65d0 kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols
When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names,
kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak
symbol.

This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols last
before feeding them to the kernel.  This way the kernel runtime isn't
changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.

Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too.  So,
even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail to
correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this.

Mathieu says:

  I created a module in LTTng that uses kallsyms to get the symbol
  corresponding to a specific system call address.  Unfortunately, all the
  unimplemented syscalls were all referring to the (same) weak symbol
  identifying an unrelated system call rather that sys_ni (or whatever
  non-weak symbol would be expected).  Kallsyms was dumbly returning the first
  symbol that matched.

  This patch makes sure kallsyms returns the non-weak symbol when there is
  one, which seems to be the expected result.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Looks-great-to: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
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basic kernel-doc: new P directive for DOC: sections 2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
genksyms kbuild: fixup genksyms usage/getopt 2008-01-28 23:14:36 +01:00
kconfig kconfig: ignore select of unknown symbol 2008-02-03 08:58:07 +01:00
ksymoops
mod kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported 2008-02-03 08:58:08 +01:00
package kbuild: support ARCH=x86 in buildtar 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
rt-tester [PATCH] rtmutex: Modify rtmutex-tester to test the setscheduler propagation 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
.gitignore [PATCH] Add unifdef to gitignore 2006-10-02 19:46:55 -07:00
bin2c.c
binoffset.c update the email address of Randy Dunlap 2006-01-03 13:37:51 +01:00
bloat-o-meter fix bloat-o-meter for ppc64 2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
checkincludes.pl
checkkconfigsymbols.sh kbuild: script to check for undefined Kconfig symbols 2007-10-12 21:13:50 +02:00
checkpatch.pl update checkpatch.pl to version 0.12 2007-11-29 09:24:51 -08:00
checkstack.pl Merge branch 'master' of hera.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2007-10-20 20:19:15 -07:00
checksyscalls.sh i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86 2007-10-11 11:20:03 +02:00
checkversion.pl kbuild: introduce utsrelease.h 2006-07-03 23:30:54 +02:00
cleanfile scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines 2007-07-16 21:15:50 +02:00
cleanpatch scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines 2007-07-16 21:15:50 +02:00
conmakehash.c [PATCH] kbuild: signed char fixes for scripts 2005-07-27 22:27:08 +02:00
decodecode kbuild: minor scripts/decodecode update 2008-01-28 23:14:40 +01:00
export_report.pl kbuild: fix perl usage in export_report.pl 2007-10-12 21:13:50 +02:00
extract-ikconfig [PATCH] extract-ikconfig: don't use --long-options 2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
gcc-version.sh kbuild: fix buglet in gcc-version.sh 2008-01-28 23:14:36 +01:00
gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh [PATCH] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS 2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
gen_initramfs_list.sh kbuild: add support for squashing uid/gid in gen_initramfs_list.sh 2007-07-16 21:15:52 +02:00
hdrcheck.sh Use dependencies for 'make headers_install'. 2006-09-24 22:15:14 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols 2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Kbuild.include kbuild: introduce cc-cross-prefix 2007-10-19 21:46:01 +02:00
kernel-doc kernel-doc: process functions, not DOC: 2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Lindent Fix Lindent to not indent preprocessor comments so far 2007-07-20 08:45:38 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module 2006-10-01 00:39:20 -07:00
Makefile.build kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
Makefile.clean kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks 2007-10-12 21:20:32 +02:00
Makefile.headersinst kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target 2007-07-17 14:24:55 +02:00
Makefile.host kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir 2007-05-06 09:23:45 +02:00
Makefile.lib kbuild: implement modules.order 2008-01-28 23:14:35 +01:00
Makefile.modinst kbuild: fix installing external modules 2008-01-28 23:14:36 +01:00
Makefile.modpost kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
makelst kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y 2007-10-15 22:25:06 +02:00
mkcompile_h kbuild: override build timestamp & version 2007-05-02 20:58:09 +02:00
mkmakefile kbuild: scripts/mkmakefile: dynamic determination of output directory 2008-01-28 23:14:38 +01:00
mksysmap spelling: s/retreive/retrieve/ 2006-01-10 00:10:13 +01:00
mkuboot.sh kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE 2007-05-02 20:58:10 +02:00
mkversion
namespace.pl x86: fixup the x86 namespace change in scripts/namespace.pl 2007-10-11 17:56:02 +02:00
patch-kernel kbuild: eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel 2008-01-28 23:14:37 +01:00
pnmtologo.c
profile2linkerlist.pl [PATCH] x86_64: Basic reorder infrastructure 2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
setlocalversion kbuild: add svn revision information to setlocalversion 2008-02-03 08:59:50 +01:00
show_delta kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files. 2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
unifdef.c kbuild: replace use of strlcpy with a dedicated implmentation in unifdef 2006-09-25 09:00:00 +02:00
ver_linux kbuild: scripts/ver_linux : correct printing of binutils version 2007-10-12 21:15:31 +02:00