kernel/linux.git/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v6.12.80

Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option

2026-03-04T12:21:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7dff99b354601dd01829e1511711846e04340a69 ] This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM, and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM. It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option. However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all of them isn't actually helping anything. And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go wrong. I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness) where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0 and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read). The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option. And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than this "just print it all" model. Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness") Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Kunit to check the longest symbol length

2025-06-27T10:11:41+00:00

commit c104c16073b7fdb3e4eae18f66f4009f6b073d6f upstream. The longest length of a symbol (KSYM_NAME_LEN) was increased to 512 in the reference [1]. This patch adds kunit test suite to check the longest symbol length. These tests verify that the longest symbol length defined is supported. This test can also help other efforts for longer symbol length, like [2]. The test suite defines one symbol with the longest possible length. The first test verify that functions with names of the created symbol, can be called or not. The second test, verify that the symbols are created (or not) in the kernel symbol table. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220802015052.10452-6-ojeda@kernel.org/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240605032120.3179157-1-song@kernel.org/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250302221518.76874-1-sergio.collado@gmail.com Tested-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan Reviewed-by: Rae Moar Signed-off-by: Sergio González Collado Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/504 Reviewed-by: Rae Moar Acked-by: David Gow Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lockdep: Fix upper limit for LOCKDEP_*_BITS configs

2025-02-17T09:04:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit e638072e61726cae363d48812815197a2a0e097f ] Lockdep has a set of configs used to determine the size of the static arrays that it uses. However, the upper limit that was initially setup for these configs is too high (30 bit shift). This equates to several GiB of static memory for individual symbols. Using such high values leads to linker errors: $ make defconfig $ ./scripts/config -e PROVE_LOCKING --set-val LOCKDEP_BITS 30 $ make olddefconfig all [...] ld: kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE ld: section .bss VMA wraps around address space Adjust the upper limits to the maximum values that avoid these issues. The need for anything more, likely points to a problem elsewhere. Note that LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS was intentionally left out as its upper limit had a different symptom and has already been fixed [1]. Reported-by: J. R. Okajima Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/30795.1620913191@jrobl/ [1] Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Will Deacon Acked-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241024183631.643450-2-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

timekeeping: Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING

2024-12-14T19:04:16+00:00

commit d44d26987bb3df6d76556827097fc9ce17565cb8 upstream. Since 135225a363ae timekeeping_cycles_to_ns() handles large offsets which would lead to 64bit multiplication overflows correctly. It's also protected against negative motion of the clocksource unconditionally, which was exclusive to x86 before. timekeeping_advance() handles large offsets already correctly. That means the value of CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING which analyzed these cases is very close to zero. Remove all of it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: John Stultz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241031120328.536010148@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/Kconfig.debug: fix grammar in RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW

2024-10-07T17:13:03+00:00

Just a grammar fix in lib/Kconfig.debug, under the config option RUST_BUILD_ASSERT_ALLOW. Reported-by: Miguel Ojeda Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1006 Fixes: ecaa6ddff2fd ("rust: add `build_error` crate") Signed-off-by: Timo Grautstueck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241006140244.5509-1-timo.grautstueck@web.de Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2024-09-24T20:02:06+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Support cross-compiling linux-headers Debian package and kernel-devel RPM package - Add support for the linux-debug Pacman package - Improve module rebuilding speed by factoring out the common code to scripts/module-common.c - Separate device tree build rules into scripts/Makefile.dtbs - Add a new script to generate modules.builtin.ranges, which is useful for tracing tools to find symbols in built-in modules - Refactor Kconfig and misc tools - Update Kbuild and Kconfig documentation * tag 'kbuild-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (51 commits) kbuild: doc: replace "gcc" in external module description kbuild: doc: describe the -C option precisely for external module builds kbuild: doc: remove the description about shipped files kbuild: doc: drop section numbering, use references in modules.rst kbuild: doc: throw out the local table of contents in modules.rst kbuild: doc: remove outdated description of the limitation on -I usage kbuild: doc: remove description about grepping CONFIG options kbuild: doc: update the description about Kbuild/Makefile split kbuild: remove unnecessary export of RUST_LIB_SRC kbuild: remove append operation on cmd_ld_ko_o kconfig: cache expression values kconfig: use hash table to reuse expressions kconfig: refactor expr_eliminate_dups() kconfig: add comments to expression transformations kconfig: change some expr_*() functions to bool scripts: move hash function from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/ kallsyms: change overflow variable to bool type kallsyms: squash output_address() kbuild: add install target for modules.builtin.ranges scripts: add verifier script for builtin module range data ...

Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2024-09-21T16:27:50+00:00

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Introduce '__attribute__((bpf_fastcall))' for helpers and kfuncs with corresponding support in LLVM. It is similar to existing 'no_caller_saved_registers' attribute in GCC/LLVM with a provision for backward compatibility. It allows compilers generate more efficient BPF code assuming the verifier or JITs will inline or partially inline a helper/kfunc with such attribute. bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx, bpf_rdonly_cast, bpf_get_smp_processor_id are the first set of such helpers. - Harden and extend ELF build ID parsing logic. When called from sleepable context the relevants parts of ELF file will be read to find and fetch .note.gnu.build-id information. Also harden the logic to avoid TOCTOU, overflow, out-of-bounds problems. - Improvements and fixes for sched-ext: - Allow passing BPF iterators as kfunc arguments - Make the pointer returned from iter_next method trusted - Fix x86 JIT convergence issue due to growing/shrinking conditional jumps in variable length encoding - BPF_LSM related: - Introduce few VFS kfuncs and consolidate them in fs/bpf_fs_kfuncs.c - Enforce correct range of return values from certain LSM hooks - Disallow attaching to other LSM hooks - Prerequisite work for upcoming Qdisc in BPF: - Allow kptrs in program provided structs - Support for gen_epilogue in verifier_ops - Important fixes: - Fix uprobe multi pid filter check - Fix bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul helpers - Track equal scalars history on per-instruction level - Fix tailcall hierarchy on x86 and arm64 - Fix signed division overflow to prevent INT_MIN/-1 trap on x86 - Fix get kernel stack in BPF progs attached to tracepoint:syscall - Selftests: - Add uprobe bench/stress tool - Generate file dependencies to drastically improve re-build time - Match JIT-ed and BPF asm with __xlated/__jited keywords - Convert older tests to test_progs framework - Add support for RISC-V - Few fixes when BPF programs are compiled with GCC-BPF backend (support for GCC-BPF in BPF CI is ongoing in parallel) - Add traffic monitor - Enable cross compile and musl libc * tag 'bpf-next-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (260 commits) btf: require pahole 1.21+ for DEBUG_INFO_BTF with default DWARF version btf: move pahole check in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh to lib/Kconfig.debug btf: remove redundant CONFIG_BPF test in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh bpf: Call the missed kfree() when there is no special field in btf bpf: Call the missed btf_record_free() when map creation fails selftests/bpf: Add a test case to write mtu result into .rodata selftests/bpf: Add a test case to write strtol result into .rodata selftests/bpf: Rename ARG_PTR_TO_LONG test description selftests/bpf: Fix ARG_PTR_TO_LONG {half-,}uninitialized test bpf: Zero former ARG_PTR_TO_{LONG,INT} args in case of error bpf: Improve check_raw_mode_ok test for MEM_UNINIT-tagged types bpf: Fix helper writes to read-only maps bpf: Remove truncation test in bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul helpers bpf: Fix bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul helpers for 32bit selftests/bpf: Add tests for sdiv/smod overflow cases bpf: Fix a sdiv overflow issue libbpf: Add bpf_object__token_fd accessor docs/bpf: Add missing BPF program types to docs docs/bpf: Add constant values for linkages bpf: Use fake pt_regs when doing bpf syscall tracepoint tracing ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-09-21-07-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-09-21T15:20:50+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches - please see the various changelogs for details. Quite a lot of nilfs2 work this time around. Notable patch series in this pull request are: - "mul_u64_u64_div_u64: new implementation" by Nicolas Pitre, with assistance from Uwe Kleine-König. Reimplement mul_u64_u64_div_u64() to provide (much) more accurate results. The current implementation was causing Uwe some issues in the PWM drivers. - "xz: Updates to license, filters, and compression options" from Lasse Collin. Miscellaneous maintenance and kinor feature work to the xz decompressor. - "Fix some GDB command error and add some GDB commands" from Kuan-Ying Lee. Fixes and enhancements to the gdb scripts. - "treewide: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros" from Jeff Johnson. Adds lots of MODULE_DESCRIPTIONs, thus fixing lots of warnings about this. - "nilfs2: add support for some common ioctls" from Ryusuke Konishi. Adds various commonly-available ioctls to nilfs2. - "This series fixes a number of formatting issues in kernel doc comments" from Ryusuke Konishi does that. - "nilfs2: prevent unexpected ENOENT propagation" from Ryusuke Konishi. Fix issues where -ENOENT was being unintentionally and inappropriately returned to userspace. - "nilfs2: assorted cleanups" from Huang Xiaojia. - "nilfs2: fix potential issues with empty b-tree nodes" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes some issues which can occur on corrupted nilfs2 filesystems. - "scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: improve error reporting and usability" from Luca Ceresoli does those things" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-09-21-07-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (103 commits) list: test: increase coverage of list_test_list_replace*() list: test: fix tests for list_cut_position() proc: use __auto_type more treewide: correct the typo 'retun' ocfs2: cleanup return value and mlog in ocfs2_global_read_info() nilfs2: remove duplicate 'unlikely()' usage nilfs2: fix potential oob read in nilfs_btree_check_delete() nilfs2: determine empty node blocks as corrupted nilfs2: fix potential null-ptr-deref in nilfs_btree_insert() user_namespace: use kmemdup_array() instead of kmemdup() for multiple allocation tools/mm: rm thp_swap_allocator_test when make clean squashfs: fix percpu address space issues in decompressor_multi_percpu.c lib: glob.c: added null check for character class nilfs2: refactor nilfs_segctor_thread() nilfs2: use kthread_create and kthread_stop for the log writer thread nilfs2: remove sc_timer_task nilfs2: do not repair reserved inode bitmap in nilfs_new_inode() nilfs2: eliminate the shared counter and spinlock for i_generation nilfs2: separate inode type information from i_state field nilfs2: use the BITS_PER_LONG macro ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-09-21T14:29:05+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series in this pull request are: - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification. - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes - mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications. - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No functional changes - code cleanups only. - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a little cleanup. - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and simplifications and .text shrinkage. - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat kstack_1k 3 kstack_2k 188 kstack_4k 11391 kstack_8k 243 kstack_16k 0 which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project". - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory. - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3 independent small optimizations of page counters". - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident. - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand. Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible() unneeded. - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector. - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions, even from a userspace-only harness. - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved performance. - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo. - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand. Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk()) resulting in the removal of follow_page(). - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown. - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature, - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied yet. - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple tree library code. - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code. - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt. Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are deprecated. - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap allocation. - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic code. - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes. - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem. - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios. - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios. - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect() performance regression due to the addition of mseal(). - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type! - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their accessors/mutators can be removed. - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading zero-filled zswap pages to backing store. - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during an unrelated vma tree walk. - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and better tested. - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park. Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests. - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang. Code cleanups and folio conversions. - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts. Cleanups for shmem controls and stats. - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song. Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning. - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs. - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram rationalization. - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates. - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags. - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy. This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas. - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky. Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning. - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area() implementations to better respect guard areas. - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups. - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge pfnmap support. - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()" from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with CXL memory. - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering of poisoned memry. - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather than into single-page folios" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits) zram: free secondary algorithms names uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality" mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas() memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page() mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault() resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects() resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings mm/x86: support large pfn mappings ...

kbuild: generate offset range data for builtin modules

2024-09-20T00:21:43+00:00

Create file module.builtin.ranges that can be used to find where built-in modules are located by their addresses. This will be useful for tracing tools to find what functions are for various built-in modules. The offset range data for builtin modules is generated using: - modules.builtin: associates object files with module names - vmlinux.map: provides load order of sections and offset of first member per section - vmlinux.o.map: provides offset of object file content per section - .*.cmd: build cmd file with KBUILD_MODFILE The generated data will look like: .text 00000000-00000000 = _text .text 0000baf0-0000cb10 amd_uncore .text 0009bd10-0009c8e0 iosf_mbi ... .text 00b9f080-00ba011a intel_skl_int3472_discrete .text 00ba0120-00ba03c0 intel_skl_int3472_discrete intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 .text 00ba03c0-00ba08d6 intel_skl_int3472_tps68470 ... .data 00000000-00000000 = _sdata .data 0000f020-0000f680 amd_uncore For each ELF section, it lists the offset of the first symbol. This can be used to determine the base address of the section at runtime. Next, it lists (in strict ascending order) offset ranges in that section that cover the symbols of one or more builtin modules. Multiple ranges can apply to a single module, and ranges can be shared between modules. The CONFIG_BUILTIN_MODULE_RANGES option controls whether offset range data is generated for kernel modules that are built into the kernel image. How it works: 1. The modules.builtin file is parsed to obtain a list of built-in module names and their associated object names (the .ko file that the module would be in if it were a loadable module, hereafter referred to as ). This object name can be used to identify objects in the kernel compile because any C or assembler code that ends up into a built-in module will have the option -DKBUILD_MODFILE= present in its build command, and those can be found in the ..cmd file in the kernel build tree. If an object is part of multiple modules, they will all be listed in the KBUILD_MODFILE option argument. This allows us to conclusively determine whether an object in the kernel build belong to any modules, and which. 2. The vmlinux.map is parsed next to determine the base address of each top level section so that all addresses into the section can be turned into offsets. This makes it possible to handle sections getting loaded at different addresses at system boot. We also determine an 'anchor' symbol at the beginning of each section to make it possible to calculate the true base address of a section at runtime (i.e. symbol address - symbol offset). We collect start addresses of sections that are included in the top level section. This is used when vmlinux is linked using vmlinux.o, because in that case, we need to look at the vmlinux.o linker map to know what object a symbol is found in. And finally, we process each symbol that is listed in vmlinux.map (or vmlinux.o.map) based on the following structure: vmlinux linked from vmlinux.a: vmlinux.map: -- might be same as top level section) -- built-in association known -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... vmlinux linked from vmlinux.o: vmlinux.map: -- might be same as top level section) vmlinux.o -- need to use vmlinux.o.map -- ignored ... vmlinux.o.map:

-- built-in association known -- belongs to module(s) object belongs to ... 3. As sections, objects, and symbols are processed, offset ranges are constructed in a straight-forward way: - If the symbol belongs to one or more built-in modules: - If we were working on the same module(s), extend the range to include this object - If we were working on another module(s), close that range, and start the new one - If the symbol does not belong to any built-in modules: - If we were working on a module(s) range, close that range Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Tested-by: Sam James Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada