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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kallsyms.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kallsyms.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 653b92f6d4..47978efe47 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ static int symbol_in_range(const struct sym_entry *s, return 0; } +static bool string_starts_with(const char *s, const char *prefix) +{ + return strncmp(s, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0; +} + static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s) { const char *name = sym_name(s); @@ -211,6 +216,14 @@ static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s) /* if --all-symbols is not specified, then symbols outside the text * and inittext sections are discarded */ if (!all_symbols) { + /* + * Symbols starting with __start and __stop are used to denote + * section boundaries, and should always be included: + */ + if (string_starts_with(name, "__start_") || + string_starts_with(name, "__stop_")) + return 1; + if (symbol_in_range(s, text_ranges, ARRAY_SIZE(text_ranges)) == 0) return 0; |