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kallsyms: introduce sections needed to map symbols to built-in modules
The mapping consists of three new symbols, computed by integrating the information in the (just-added) .tmp_vmlinux.ranges and modules_thick.builtin: taken together, they map address ranges (corresponding to object files on the input) to the names of zero or more modules containing those address ranges. - kallsyms_module_addresses/kallsyms_module_offsets encodes the address/offset of each object file (derived from the linker map), in exactly the same way as kallsyms_addresses/kallsyms_offsets does for symbols. There is no size: instead, the object files are assumed to tile the address space. (This is slightly more space-efficient than using a size). Non-text-section addresses are skipped: for now, all the users of this interface only need module/non-module information for instruction pointer addresses, not absolute-addressed symbols and the like. This restriction can easily be lifted in future. (Regarding the name: right now the entries correspond pretty closely to object files, so we could call the section kallsyms_objfiles or something, but the optimizer added in the next commit will change this.) - kallsyms_module_names encodes the name of each module in a modified form of strtab: notably, if an object file appears in *multiple* modules, all of which are built in, this is encoded via a zero byte, a one-byte module count, then a series of that many null-terminated strings. As a special case, the table starts with a single zero byte which does *not* represent the start of a multi-module list. - kallsyms_modules connects the two, encoding a table associated 1:1 with kallsyms_module_addresses / kallsyms_module_offsets, pointing at an offset in kallsyms_module_names describing which module (or modules, for a multi-module list) the code occupying this address range is part of. If an address range is part of no module (always built-in) it points at 0 (the null byte at the start of the kallsyms_module_names list). There is no optimization yet: kallsyms_modules and kallsyms_module_names will almost certainly contain many duplicate entries, and kallsyms_module_{addresses,offsets} may contain consecutive entries that point to the same place. The size hit is fairly substantial as a result, though still much less than a naive implementation mapping each symbol to a module name would be: 50KiB or so. Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
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