From: Keith Owens PPC small data area base symbols shift between kallsyms phases 1 and 2, which makes the kallsyms data unstable. Exclude them from the kallsyms list. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/scripts/kallsyms.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/kallsyms.c~kallsyms-ppc32-fix scripts/kallsyms.c --- 25/scripts/kallsyms.c~kallsyms-ppc32-fix Tue Jul 6 14:15:55 2004 +++ 25-akpm/scripts/kallsyms.c Tue Jul 6 14:15:55 2004 @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ symbol_valid(struct sym_entry *s) strcmp(s->sym, "kallsyms_names") == 0) return 0; + /* Exclude linker generated symbols which vary between passes */ + if (strcmp(s->sym, "_SDA_BASE_") == 0 || /* ppc */ + strcmp(s->sym, "_SDA2_BASE_") == 0) /* ppc */ + return 0; + return 1; } _