From 6f00df24ee394f345a8789d3a2f98fc1d9195b9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:16:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms

Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 scripts/kallsyms.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 1f53d4fc4c1d4..d591578bd3b20 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
 	else if (toupper(stype) == 'U' ||
 		 is_arm_mapping_symbol(sym))
 		return -1;
+	/* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */
+	else if (str[0] == '$')
+		return -1;
 
 	/* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
 	 * compressed together */
-- 
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