Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems

[Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>]

[Let me try this again, without the corporate boilerplate on the bottom]
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:53, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:10:46AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Rusty Russell <rusty <at> rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> > > Russell, I thought about not including any symbol which is not of form
> > > "[A-Za-z0-9_]+" in kallsyms, for all archs: you are not the only one
> > > with weird-ass symbols.  Is it that you want these mapping symbols in
> > > /proc/kallsyms but ignored in backtraces, or you don't need them in
> > > kallsyms altogether?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rusty.
> > 
> > 
> > Mapping symbols will always be encoded with STB_LOCAL and STT_NOTYPE.
> > I would have thought it unlikely that the kernel would ever want to
> > report against any symbol with those attributes and they could all
> > be dropped on that basis.
> 
> (Richard - your mailer appears to have dropped people from the CC: list...)


Not by me, I don't subscribe to the list in question and was pointed to
gmane.linux.kernel newsgroup by Phillipe.  I simply followed up to that
message.

> How about this patch?  Is there a better way to parse the 'nm' output
> to achieve the same as your suggestion above?
> 
> diff -up -x BitKeeper -x ChangeSet -x SCCS -x _xlk -x *.orig -x *.rej orig/kernel/module.c linux/kernel/module.c
> --- orig/kernel/module.c	Wed Sep 22 16:07:38 2004
> +++ linux/kernel/module.c	Tue Oct  5 12:46:01 2004
> @@ -1923,6 +1923,10 @@ static const char *get_ksymbol(struct mo
>  		if (mod->symtab[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF)
>  			continue;
>  
> +		if (ELF_ST_BIND(mod->symtab[i].st_info) == STB_LOCAL
> +		    && ELF_ST_TYPE(mod->symtab[i].st_info) == STT_NOTYPE)
> +			continue;
> +
>  		/* We ignore unnamed symbols: they're uninformative
>  		 * and inserted at a whim. */
>  		if (mod->symtab[i].st_value <= addr
> diff -up -x BitKeeper -x ChangeSet -x SCCS -x _xlk -x *.orig -x *.rej orig/scripts/kallsyms.c linux/scripts/kallsyms.c
> --- orig/scripts/kallsyms.c	Sun Jul 11 22:56:39 2004
> +++ linux/scripts/kallsyms.c	Tue Oct  5 12:51:26 2004
> @@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ usage(void)
>  	exit(1);
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * This ignores the intensely annoying "mapping symbols" found
> + * in ARM ELF files: $a, $t and $d.
> + */
> +static inline int
> +is_arm_mapping_symbol(const char *str)
> +{
> +	return str[0] == '$' && strchr("atd", str[1]) &&
> +	       (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.');
> +}
> +
>  static int
>  read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
>  {
> @@ -56,7 +67,8 @@ read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *
>  		_sinittext = s->addr;
>  	else if (strcmp(str, "_einittext") == 0)
>  		_einittext = s->addr;
> -	else if (toupper(s->type) == 'A' || toupper(s->type) == 'U')
> +	else if (toupper(s->type) == 'A' || toupper(s->type) == 'U' ||
> +		 is_arm_mapping_symbol(str))
>  		return -1;
>  
>  	s->sym = strdup(str);

Why don't you pass s to is_arm_mapping_symbol and have it do the same
thing as you've done in get_ksymbol?

R.