With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, the compiler/linker adds .llvm.<hash> suffix to local symbols to avoid duplications. Existing scripts/kallsyms sorts symbols without .llvm.<hash> suffix. However, this causes quite some issues later on. Some users of kallsyms, such as livepatch, have to match symbols exactly; while other users, such as kprobe, would match symbols without the suffix. Address this by sorting full symbols (with .llvm.<hash>) at build time, and split kallsyms APIs to explicitly match full symbols or without suffix. Specifically, exiting APIs will match symbols exactly. Two new APIs are added to match symbols with suffix. Use the new APIs in tracing/kprobes. Song Liu (3): kallsyms: Do not cleanup .llvm.<hash> suffix before sorting symbols kallsyms: Add APIs to match symbol without .llmv.<hash> suffix. tracing/kprobes: Use APIs that matches symbols with .llvm.<hash> suffix include/linux/kallsyms.h | 14 +++++++ kernel/kallsyms.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- kernel/kallsyms_selftest.c | 22 +--------- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 10 ++++- scripts/kallsyms.c | 30 +------------- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 4 -- 6 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0