Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linus

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 22d281c6ec2..f359b730c2c 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct sym_entry {
 
 static struct sym_entry *table;
 static unsigned int table_size, table_cnt;
-static unsigned long long _stext, _etext, _sinittext, _einittext, _sextratext, _eextratext;
+static unsigned long long _text, _stext, _etext, _sinittext, _einittext, _sextratext, _eextratext;
 static int all_symbols = 0;
 static char symbol_prefix_char = '\0';
 
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
 		sym++;
 
 	/* Ignore most absolute/undefined (?) symbols. */
-	if (strcmp(sym, "_stext") == 0)
+	if (strcmp(sym, "_text") == 0)
+		_text = s->addr;
+	else if (strcmp(sym, "_stext") == 0)
 		_stext = s->addr;
 	else if (strcmp(sym, "_etext") == 0)
 		_etext = s->addr;
@@ -265,9 +267,25 @@ static void write_src(void)
 
 	printf(".data\n");
 
+	/* Provide proper symbols relocatability by their '_text'
+	 * relativeness.  The symbol names cannot be used to construct
+	 * normal symbol references as the list of symbols contains
+	 * symbols that are declared static and are private to their
+	 * .o files.  This prevents .tmp_kallsyms.o or any other
+	 * object from referencing them.
+	 */
 	output_label("kallsyms_addresses");
 	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
-		printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
+		if (toupper(table[i].sym[0]) != 'A') {
+			if (_text <= table[i].addr)
+				printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
+					table[i].addr - _text);
+			else
+				printf("\tPTR\t_text - %#llx\n",
+					_text - table[i].addr);
+		} else {
+			printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
+		}
 	}
 	printf("\n");