[REGRESSION] _end symbol missing from Symbol.map

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Hi all,

with 2.6.31 'crash' on x86_64 falls flat on its face as the '_end' symbol
is missing from the System.map file.

The culprit is commit 091e52c3551d3031343df24b573b770b4c6c72b6,
which moved the '_end' symbol into it's own section.
Apparently this causes kallsyms to not reference it properly.

So either we'd need to revert part of the patch to not
include _end in it's own section:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 59f31d2..1422df5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -376,9 +376,7 @@ SECTIONS
                __brk_limit = .;
        }
 
-       .end : AT(ADDR(.end) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-               _end = .;
-       }
+       _end = .;
 
        /* Sections to be discarded */
        /DISCARD/ : {

or someone has to fixup kallsyms. But this is far beyond my comfort zone.

Cheers,

Hannes
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