linux-kernel - [PATCH] scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support

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Message-ID: <20211008112438.GA1243425@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 8 Oct 2021 19:24:38 +0800
From:   Hui Su <suhui_kernel@....com>
To:     masahiroy@...nel.org, michal.lkml@...kovi.net,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scripts: update the comments of kallsyms support

update the comments of kallsyms support

Signed-off-by: Hui Su <suhui_kernel@....com>
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index d74cee5c4326..a98c4f045302 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -369,14 +369,14 @@ if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then
 	# kallsyms support
 	# Generate section listing all symbols and add it into vmlinux
 	# It's a three step process:
-	# 1)  Link .tmp_vmlinux1 so it has all symbols and sections,
+	# 1)  Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 so it has all symbols and sections,
 	#     but __kallsyms is empty.
 	#     Running kallsyms on that gives us .tmp_kallsyms1.o with
 	#     the right size
-	# 2)  Link .tmp_vmlinux2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
+	# 2)  Link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2 so it now has a __kallsyms section of
 	#     the right size, but due to the added section, some
 	#     addresses have shifted.
-	#     From here, we generate a correct .tmp_kallsyms2.o
+	#     From here, we generate a correct .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
 	# 3)  That link may have expanded the kernel image enough that
 	#     more linker branch stubs / trampolines had to be added, which
 	#     introduces new names, which further expands kallsyms. Do another
-- 
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