On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:39PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > With LTO, llvm-nm prints out symbols for each archive member > separately, which results in a lot of duplicate dependencies in the > .mod file when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMS is enabled. When a module > consists of several compilation units, the output can exceed the > default xargs command size limit and split the dependency list to > multiple lines, which results in used symbols getting trimmed. > > This change removes duplicate dependencies, which will reduce the > probability of this happening and makes .mod files smaller and > easier to read. > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook
