Inconsistent kallsyms data on ARM.

[u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:37:04AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:59:44PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > As to longer term, I am happy to work up something that will spot this
> > particular kind of failure (symbol changes type) and output something
> > more useful during the kallsyms generation if you would like.
> > 
> > Are you planning to pull in either of the fixes you mention?
> 
> I'm not, because those are all sub-optimal - I don't see why we should
> bloat the kernel image just for the sake of working around kallsyms.
> 
> The best I've come up with so far which avoids that is to force
> KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS to always be set on ARM.
Just to let you know: I even saw failures with KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS set.
Not so in the recent past and sometimes not even reproducible IIRC.
I will save the build results next time it happens now that I saw what
to look for.

Best regards
Uwe

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