Commit f1854025 authored by Siddharth Nayyar's avatar Siddharth Nayyar Committed by Sami Tolvanen
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module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules 



These sections are not used anymore and can be removed from vmlinux and
modules during linking.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSiddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
parent b4760ff2

include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

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@@ -508,34 +508,20 @@ 
									\

	PRINTK_INDEX							\

									\

	/* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */			\

	/* Kernel symbol table */					\

	__ksymtab         : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\

		__start___ksymtab = .;					\

		KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab+*)))				\

		__stop___ksymtab = .;					\

	}								\

									\

	/* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */			\

	__ksymtab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\

		__start___ksymtab_gpl = .;				\

		KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)))				\

		__stop___ksymtab_gpl = .;				\

	}								\

									\

	/* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */			\

	/* Kernel symbol CRC table */					\

	__kcrctab         : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\

		__start___kcrctab = .;					\

		KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab+*)))				\

		__stop___kcrctab = .;					\

	}								\

									\

	/* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */			\

	__kcrctab_gpl     : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\

		__start___kcrctab_gpl = .;				\

		KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)))				\

		__stop___kcrctab_gpl = .;				\

	}								\

									\

	/* Kernel symbol flags table */					\

	__kflagstab       : AT(ADDR(__kflagstab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\

		__start___kflagstab = .;				\

scripts/module.lds.S

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@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ SECTIONS { 
	}



	__ksymtab		0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) }

	__ksymtab_gpl		0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) }

	__kcrctab		0 : ALIGN(4) { *(SORT(___kcrctab+*)) }

	__kcrctab_gpl		0 : ALIGN(4) { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)) }

	__kflagstab		0 : ALIGN(1) { *(SORT(___kflagstab+*)) }



	.ctors			0 : ALIGN(8) { *(SORT(.ctors.*)) *(.ctors) }