These __ksymtab*/__kcrctab* sections currently have non-zero addresses.
Non-zero section addresses in a relocatable ELF confuse GDB and it ends
up not relocating all symbols when add-symbol-file is used on modules
which have exports. The kernel's module loader does not care about
these addresses, so let's just set them to zero.
Before:
$ readelf -S lib/notifier-error-inject.ko | grep 'Name\| __ksymtab_gpl'
[Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[ 8] __ksymtab_gpl PROGBITS 0000000c 0001b4 000010 00 A 0 0 4
(gdb) add-symbol-file lib/notifier-error-inject.ko 0x500000 -s .bss 0x700000
add symbol table from file "lib/notifier-error-inject.ko" at
.text_addr = 0x500000
.bss_addr = 0x700000
(gdb) p ¬ifier_err_inject_dir
$3 = (struct dentry **) 0x0
After:
$ readelf -S lib/notifier-error-inject.ko | grep 'Name\| __ksymtab_gpl'
[Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[ 8] __ksymtab_gpl PROGBITS 00000000 0001b4 000010 00 A 0 0 4
(gdb) add-symbol-file lib/notifier-error-inject.ko 0x500000 -s .bss 0x700000
add symbol table from file "lib/notifier-error-inject.ko" at
.text_addr = 0x500000
.bss_addr = 0x700000
(gdb) p ¬ifier_err_inject_dir
$3 = (struct dentry **) 0x700000
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").
The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.
This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
