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module: Sort exported symbols

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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>
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Alessio Igor Bogani
2011-04-14 14:59:39 +02:00
committed by Rusty Russell
parent de4d8d5346
commit f02e8a6596
3 changed files with 23 additions and 12 deletions
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@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ struct module_use {
extern void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak)); \
static const unsigned long __kcrctab_##sym \
__used \
__attribute__((section("__kcrctab" sec), unused)) \
__attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym), unused)) \
= (unsigned long) &__crc_##sym;
#else
#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ struct module_use {
= MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
__used \
__attribute__((section("__ksymtab" sec), unused)) \
__attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), unused)) \
= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) \