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Re: Force production of ELF hash table
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: John Cronin <jncronin at tysos dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:16:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: Force production of ELF hash table
- References: <5173E970 dot 5040707 at tysos dot org>
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:28 AM, John Cronin <jncronin@tysos.org> wrote:
>
> I am using ld to link an OS kernel. The kernel produced is a statically
> linked executable file but supports dynamic modules. I would like to use
> the hash table functionality of ELF files to quickly look up symbols within
> the statically linked kernel file for dynamically loading the modules
> however cannot work out how to ask ld to add the hash table to non-shared
> outputs. Is it possible? I see from
> http://elinux.org/images/1/18/C_AMOROSO_Fast_lkm_loader_ELC-E_2009.pdf that
> the embedded linux guys have had to write their own tool (ksymhash) to
> modify the vmlinux image after linking but I was wondering whether there was
> a way to ask ld to do it for me. I am using the x86_64-elf target.
There is currently no support for that in either GNU ld or gold. It
would not be enough to simply write out the hash table; you could also
have to provide some way for the program to find it at runtime, since
it would not be able to use the usual dynamic tag mechanism.
Ian