On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:21:01AM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> On 13/03/13 06:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> /* Some toolchains use a `_' prefix for all user symbols. */
> >> -#ifdef CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
> >> -#define MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
> >> +#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL(x) _##x
> >> +#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(x) "_" #x
> >> +#define VMLINUX_SYMBOL_PREFIX_STR "_"
> >> #else
> >> -#define MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX ""
> >> +#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL(x) x
> >> +#define __VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(x) #x
> >> +#define VMLINUX_SYMBOL_PREFIX_STR ""
> >> #endif
> >
> > We know the prefix is an underscore. No benefits from defining
> > VMLINUX_SYMBOL_PREFIX_STR.
>
> scripts/modpost.c uses the actual prefix string though:
>
> > if (memcmp(symname, MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
> > strlen(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX)) == 0) {
> > mod->unres =
> > alloc_symbol(symname +
> > strlen(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX),
> > ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) == STB_WEAK,
> > mod->unres);
>
Allowing ourself to know this is "_" then we could make the above code look
something like:
if (have_symbol_prefix_underscore) {
if (symname[0] == '_') {
mod->unres =
...
But I do not feel strong about this part.
It is much more important to clean up so we use the
same definition all over the kernel.
Sam
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