On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:11:25PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> Commit 1f2bfbd00e466ff3489b2ca5cc75b1cccd14c123 ("kbuild: link of
> vmlinux moved to a script") introduced in v3.5-rc1 broke kallsyms on
> architectures which have symbol prefixes.
>
> The --symbol-prefix argument used to be added to the KALLSYMS command
> line from the architecture Makefile, however this isn't picked up by the
> new scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. This resulted in symbols like
> kallsyms_addresses being added which weren't correctly overriding the
> weak symbols such as _kallsyms_addresses. These could then trigger
> BUG_ONs in kallsyms code.
>
> This is fixed by removing the KALLSYMS addition from the architecture
> Makefile, and using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX in the link-vmlinux.sh script
> to determine whether to add the --symbol-prefix argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org>
Sam
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