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[PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata
authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:35:57 +0000 (02:35 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:28:37 +0000 (08:28 -0800)
Kallsyms data is never written to, so it can as well benefit from
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/kallsyms.c
scripts/kallsyms.c

index ab63cfc429929ff9e93461ebe0aad8b280929d65..6f294ff4f9eec46f448dd9eb30fcb0b2ed47e6dc 100644 (file)
 #endif
 
 /* These will be re-linked against their real values during the second link stage */
-extern unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[] __attribute__((weak));
-extern unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms __attribute__((weak,section("data")));
-extern u8 kallsyms_names[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const unsigned long kallsyms_addresses[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms __attribute__((weak));
+extern const u8 kallsyms_names[] __attribute__((weak));
 
-extern u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __attribute__((weak));
-extern u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __attribute__((weak));
 
-extern unsigned long kallsyms_markers[] __attribute__((weak));
+extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[] __attribute__((weak));
 
 static inline int is_kernel_inittext(unsigned long addr)
 {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int is_ksym_addr(unsigned long addr)
 static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symbol(unsigned int off, char *result)
 {
        int len, skipped_first = 0;
-       u8 *tptr, *data;
+       const u8 *tptr, *data;
 
        /* get the compressed symbol length from the first symbol byte */
        data = &kallsyms_names[off];
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off)
  * kallsyms array */
 static unsigned int get_symbol_offset(unsigned long pos)
 {
-       u8 *name;
+       const u8 *name;
        int i;
 
        /* use the closest marker we have. We have markers every 256 positions,
index f359b730c2c57572b46f47f7c344137c7b5f9c55..8b809b264d18356ead4dc3012a2a091e3f423cb5 100644 (file)
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static void write_src(void)
        printf("#define ALGN .align 4\n");
        printf("#endif\n");
 
-       printf(".data\n");
+       printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n");
 
        /* Provide proper symbols relocatability by their '_text'
         * relativeness.  The symbol names cannot be used to construct