scripts/check-function-names.sh

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/check-function-names.sh

File Facts

System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
scripts/check-function-names.sh
Extension
.sh
Size
645 bytes
Lines
26
Domain
Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket
scripts
Inferred role
Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts
Status
atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

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Annotated Snippet

#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Certain function names are disallowed due to section name ambiguities
# introduced by -ffunction-sections.
#
# See the comment above TEXT_MAIN in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

objfile="$1"

if [ ! -f "$objfile" ]; then
	echo "usage: $0 <file.o>" >&2
	exit 1
fi

bad_symbols=$(${NM:-nm} "$objfile" | awk '$2 ~ /^[TtWw]$/ {print $3}' | grep -E '^(startup|exit|split|unlikely|hot|unknown)(\.|$)')

if [ -n "$bad_symbols" ]; then
	echo "$bad_symbols" | while read -r sym; do
		echo "$objfile: error: $sym() function name creates ambiguity with -ffunction-sections" >&2
	done
	exit 1
fi

exit 0

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