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kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'
authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Tue, 1 Feb 2022 01:32:57 +0000 (09:32 +0800)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:44:16 +0000 (00:44 +0900)
commit243da6618cdf97a06cd1d2908e1ce32c3232dbda
tree4f21e2ed385c1ebc43953a46b329991b3b9f4455
parentabbd2c1a61fd6db25c729d5cdd840bef66c2fed7
kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'

The llvm compiler can generate lots of local labels ('.LBB', '.Ltmpxxx',
'.L__unnamed_xx', etc.). These symbols usually are useless for debugging.
And they might overlap with handwritten symbols.

Before this change, a dumpstack shows a local symbol for epc:
[    0.040341][    T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.040376][    T0] epc : .LBB6_14+0x22/0x6a
[    0.040452][    T0]  ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e

The simple solution is that we can ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'.
For handwritten symbols which need to be preserved should drop the '.L'
prefix.

After this change, the C defined symbol is shown so we can locate the
problematical code immediately:
[    0.035795][    T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.036332][    T0] epc : trace_hardirqs_on+0x54/0x13c
[    0.036567][    T0]  ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
scripts/kallsyms.c