20 Dec, 2008

1 commit

  • This patch changes the way __crc_ symbols are being resolved from
    using ld to do so to using the assembler, thus allowing these symbols
    to be marked local (the linker creates then as global ones) and hence
    allow stripping (for modules) or ignoring (for vmlinux) them. While at
    this, also strip other generated symbols during module installation.

    One potentially debatable point is the handling of the flags passeed
    to gcc when translating the intermediate assembly file into an object:
    passing $(c_flags) unchanged doesn't work as gcc passes --gdwarf2 to
    gas whenever is sees any -g* option, even for -g0, and despite the
    fact that the compiler would have already produced all necessary debug
    info in the C->assembly translation phase. I took the approach of just
    filtering out all -g* options, but an alternative to such negative
    filtering might be to have a positive filter which might, in the ideal
    case allow just all the -Wa,* options to pass through.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

    Jan Beulich
     

20 May, 2008

1 commit

  • Andi Kleen
    reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this:

    0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2
    0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0
    0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0

    in his System.map / kallsyms output.

    Simple solution is to skip all debugging
    symbols (they are marked 'N').

    Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
    Cc: Paulo Marques

    Sam Ravnborg
     

10 Jan, 2006

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds