From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org (fire.osdl.org [65.172.181.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.osdl.org", Issuer "OSDL Hostmaster" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359A5679F9 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 11:38:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:37:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Message-Id: <20050502183733.52db7703.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1115020651.3287.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1115020651.3287.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms. List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David Woodhouse wrote: > > The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections > so that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually > worked out what we're running on today. > > This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between > _[se]text or _[se]inittext. Rather than teaching kallsyms about the > various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers > for kallsyms. > Current kernels have fixes in exactly this area. Please redo, retest, resend. > > --- linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds~ 2005-05-01 10:43:10.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.11/arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds 2005-05-02 08:06:52.000000000 +0100 2.6.11? Wow.