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authorHui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com>2021-10-08 19:24:38 +0800
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2021-10-12 11:50:46 +0900
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scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support
update the comments of kallsyms support. Fixes: af73d78bd384 ("kbuild: Remove debug info from kallsyms linking") Signed-off-by: Hui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/link-vmlinux.sh6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index d74cee5c4326..a98c4f045302 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -369,14 +369,14 @@ if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then
# kallsyms support
# Generate section listing all symbols and add it into vmlinux
# It's a three step process:
- # 1) Link .tmp_vmlinux1 so it has all symbols and sections,
+ # 1) Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 so it has all symbols and sections,
# but __kallsyms is empty.
# Running kallsyms on that gives us .tmp_kallsyms1.o with
# the right size
- # 2) Link .tmp_vmlinux2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
+ # 2) Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
# the right size, but due to the added section, some
# addresses have shifted.
- # From here, we generate a correct .tmp_kallsyms2.o
+ # From here, we generate a correct .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
# 3) That link may have expanded the kernel image enough that
# more linker branch stubs / trampolines had to be added, which
# introduces new names, which further expands kallsyms. Do another