On 2023/3/6 18:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> My randconfig build setup ran into another kallsyms warning:
>
> Inconsistent kallsyms data
> Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
>
> After adding some debugging code to kallsyms.c, I saw that the recently
> added kallsyms_seqs_of_names symbol can sometimes cause the second stage
> table to be slightly longer than the first stage, which makes the
> build inconsistent.
>
> Add it to the exception table that contains all other kallsyms-generated
> symbols.
Reviewed-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Maybe we can do a sanity check in output_label(). Or dynamically add the new
symbol into ignored_symbols[], in this way, manual maintenance is not required.
>
> Fixes: 60443c88f3a8 ("kallsyms: Improve the performance of kallsyms_lookup_name()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/kallsyms.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
> index 8a68179a98a3..a239a87e7bec 100644
> --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static bool is_ignored_symbol(const char *name, char type)
> "kallsyms_markers",
> "kallsyms_token_table",
> "kallsyms_token_index",
> + "kallsyms_seqs_of_names",
> /* Exclude linker generated symbols which vary between passes */
> "_SDA_BASE_", /* ppc */
> "_SDA2_BASE_", /* ppc */
>
--
Regards,
Zhen Lei
