When part of build an external module tree, modpost first reads in the
kernel's and then the external tree's Module.symvers files. From these files
it establishes a symbol => module mapping. When it later reads in each module
built and processes the symbols it finds, it discovers the symbol=>module
mapping from Module.symvers and leaves it as it is.
The problem comes with a module has been re-named or a symbol has moved from
one module to another, since the Module.symvers file was generated. modpost
does not update the symbol=>module mapping when it finds the new location of
the symbol when scanning the newly built modules. This results in the module
containing incorrect dependency information and the new Module.symvers file
written by modpost will also contain the incorrect mappings, perpetuating the
problem to the next build, and so on.
When building the out of kernel development tree for kernel subsystem, like
v4l-dvb or ALSA, deleting the external Module.symvers file before building
(which the kernel build system doesn't do and shouldn't be necessary anyway),
won't fix the problem. modpost still reads the kernel's Module.symvers, and
since we a building a kernel subsystem, it will define the same symbols as the
external modules.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Fix modpost segfault.
Before:
-------
ynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o
Segmentation fault
After:
------
ynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o
FATAL: section header offset=815726848 in file 'ath_pci.o' is bigger then filesize=153968
Sam: This seems to warn for a binutils issue. Anyway modpost should not
segfault.
Signed-off-by: Petr Stetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section,
thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before.
Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace
creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns
stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot.
Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls
are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be
merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to
use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes"
for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS
is not set to save more space in memory.
The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section,
as noticed by David, since the init section will have
references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost
checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace
never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I
introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already
done with the __init_refok.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Xtensa architecture places literal pools in sections separate
from the instructions. The corresponsing text sections, therefore,
reference the .literal section, and we have to suppress those
warnings.
The naming convention defines the name for a literal
section as .SECTION.literal, unless .SECTION is .text. In that case
the name is only .literal. Using strncmp() instead of strcmp()
to compare the from-section with .SECTION.init.refok in pattern 0
should not cause any regressions for other architectures.
We also need to suppress warnings for two informational
sections (.xt.lit and .xt.prop) used by the Xtensa architecture.
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
In the whitelist function of modpost now use the same
check to identify init_section as in other places of modpost.
This has the effect that we now recognize sections named
.init.text.19 as init sections and we no longer warn
when we see these.
At the same time make surrounding code readable by dropping
use of temporary flags.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
We already check and warn about section mismatches from vmlinux
(build as vmlinux.o) during first pass so skip the checks
during the 2nd pass where we process modules.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
gcc puts data into .data.rel or .data.rel.* on some architectures (e.g.
ia64) or under certain conditions, so whatever is legal relative to
.data should also be legal for those other sections. Fixes a few
modpost warnings on ia64.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Previously we did do the check on the .o files used to link
vmlinux but that failed to find questionable references across
the .o files.
Create a dedicated vmlinux.o file used only for section mismatch checks
that uses the defualt linker script so section does not get renamed.
The vmlinux.o may later be used as part of the the final link of vmlinux
but for now it is used fo section mismatch only.
For a defconfig build this is instant but for an allyesconfig this
add two minutes to a full build (that anyways takes ~2 hours).
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
arm uses a lot of ops structures named *_timer that has legitimite
references to .init.text.
So let's add this variable to the list of variables that may reference
.init.text without causing any warning.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Replaced this with a __init_refok marker
in front of fb_find_logo().
I think that the __initdata marker for the logo's are
wrong but I have not justified this so I did not remove it.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The .exit.text section may be discarded either at build or at runtime.
So let modpost warn if this situation is detected.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Move more checks from whitelist to the section check functions.
Remove the redundent pci_fixup check.
Renumber the patterns.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
There were a great deal of overlap between the two functions
that check which sections may reference .init.text and .exit.text.
Factor out common check to a separate function and
sort entries in the original functions.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external
tools to examine the kernel image. Since this is removed from any
runtime consideration, it's OK to reference any section from a .note*
section.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
We should do better here by effetively "dereferencing" references to
the .toc (or the .got2) section, but that is much harder.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
On i386 and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show
usefull symbol name. This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend
value. This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with
apply_relocate() routine in kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
There's a special .cranges section that is almost always generated,
with data being moved to the appropriate section by the linker at a later
stage.
To give a bit of background, sh64 has both a native SHmedia instruction
set (32-bit instructions) and SHcompact (which is compatability with
normal SH -- 16-bit, a massively reduced register set, etc.). code ranges
are emitted when we're using the 32-bit ABI, but not the 64-bit one.
It is a special staging section used solely by binutils where code with
different flags get placed (more specifically differing flags for input
and output sections), before being lazily merged by the linker.
The closest I've been able to find to documentation is:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ld/emultempl/sh64elf.em?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
It's an array of 8-byte Elf32_CRange structure given in
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elf32-sh64.h?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
that describes for which ISA a range is used.
Silence the warnings by allowing references from .init.text to .cranges.
The following warnings are fixed:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0xa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x28): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x32): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x50): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x5a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x64): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0xfa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x104): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x10e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x154): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x15e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x6e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x78): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x82): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0xaa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x136): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x140): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x168): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1f4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1fe): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x302): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x30c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x316): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x3a2): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x3ac): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x4ce): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
WARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x4d8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This reverts commit f892b7d480, which
totally broke the build on x86 with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE (which, as far as
I can tell, is the only case where it should even matter!) due to a
SIGSEGV in modpost.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
modpost had two cases hardcoded for mm/
Shift over to __init_refok and kill the
hardcoded function names in modpost.
This has the drawback that the functions
will always be kept no matter configuration.
With previous code the function were placed in
init section if configuration allowed it.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Throughout the kernel there are a few legitimite references
to init or exit sections. Most of these are covered by the
patterns included in modpost but a few nees special attention.
To avoid hardcoding a lot of function names in modpost introduce
a marker so relevant function/data can be marked.
When modpost see a reference to a init/exit function from
a function/data marked no warning will be issued.
Idea from: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes the following class of "Section mismatch" warnings when
building powerpc platforms.
WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from prom_entry (offset 0x0)
WARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:mpc8313_rdb_probe from .machine.desc after 'mach_mpc8313_rdb' (at offset 0x4)
....
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
On i386, ARM and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show
usefull symbol name. This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend
value. This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with
apply_relocate() routine in kernel code.
Without this patch:
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0xf4) and 'try_name'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'
With this patch:
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'
Now modpost can detect "kernel_init" name (and whitelist it) and show
"set_up_list3s" name.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Change modpost section mismatch warnings to be less confusing;
model them on the binutils linker warnings which we all know how
to interpret.
Also, fix the wrong ordering of arguments for the final case -
fromsec and refsymname were reversed.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This will later allow an arch to add module specific information via linker
generated tables instead of poking directly in the module object structure.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is add white list into modpost.c for some functions and
ia64's section to fix section mismatchs.
sparse_index_alloc() and zone_wait_table_init() calls bootmem allocator
at boot time, and kmalloc/vmalloc at hotplug time. If config
memory hotplug is on, there are references of bootmem allocater(init text)
from them (normal text). This is cause of section mismatch.
Bootmem is called by many functions and it must be
used only at boot time. I think __init of them should keep for
section mismatch check. So, I would like to register sparse_index_alloc()
and zone_wait_table_init() into white list.
In addition, ia64's .machvec section is function table of some platform
dependent code. It is mixture of .init.text and normal text. These
reference of __init functions are valid too.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits)
kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault
kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir
kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found
kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death
kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message.
kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
usr/Kconfig: fix typo
kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'
kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file
kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.
kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries
kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es
kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text
kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c
kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE
kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man
kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper
kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config'
kbuild: override build timestamp & version
...
Some of modpost's warnings are fatal, and some are not. Adopt the
compiler distinction between errors and warnings by calling merror()
for fatal diagnostics and warn() for non-fatal ones.
merror() was used as replacemtn for error() to avoid clash with glibc
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
drivers/video/logo has references from .text to .init.data
but function is only used during early init.
So reference is OK and we do not want to warn about them =>
whitelist the reference.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Now where we do not pass vmlinux to modpost we started
to see section mismatch warnings from .pci_fixup.
Refactored code a little to include these in the
whitelist again.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
In init/main.c we have a reference from rest_init() to .init.text
which is intentional.
Rename the function 'init' to 'kernel_init' to make it a
kernel wide unique symbol and whitelist the reference.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
vmlinux does not contain relocation entries which is
used by the section mismatch checks.
Reported by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Use the individual objects as inputs to overcome
this limitation.
In modpost check the .o files and skip non-ELF files.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
o Modpost generates warnings for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_unisys_acpi_oem_table from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101eda) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:acpi_get_table_header_early from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101ef0) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101f2e) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:setup_unisys from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101f37) and 'enable_apic_mode'WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between 'mps_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101ec7) and 'acpi_madt_oem_check'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:es7000_sw_apic from .text between 'enable_apic_mode' (at offset 0xc0101f48) and 'check_apicid_present'
o Some functions which are inline (acpi_madt_oem_check) are not inlined by
compiler as these functions are accessed using function pointer. These
functions are put in .text section and they in-turn access __init type
functions hence modpost generates warnings.
o Do not iniline acpi_madt_oem_check, instead make it __init.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits)
[PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls
[PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls
Revert "[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems"
[PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc
[PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h
Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static"
[PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo
[PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver
[PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register
[PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code
[PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro
[PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions
[PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc
[PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L
[PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC()
[PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS
[PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c
[PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal
...
Fix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made
publicly available to PARISC again.
This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM
builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical
example would be driver method table entries:
WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove
from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4)
That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in
this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct.
The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists
references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ... but
doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are not
otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols.
This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning
those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.
Then things work as expected.
Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of this
modpost bug....
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o Entry startup_32 was in .text section but it was accessing some init
data too and it prompts MODPOST to generate compilation warnings.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from
.text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100029) and 'startup_32_smp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from
.text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100037) and 'startup_32_smp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:init_pg_tables_end from .text between '_text' (at offset
0xc0100099) and 'startup_32_smp'
o Can't move startup_32 to .init.text as this entry point has to be at the
start of bzImage. Hence moved startup_32 to a new section .text.head and
instructed MODPOST to not to generate warnings if init data is being
accessed from .text.head section. This code has been audited.
o SMP boot up code (startup_32_smp) can go into .init.text if CPU hotplug
is not supported. Otherwise it generates more warnings
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from
.text between 'checkCPUtype' (at offset 0xc0100126) and 'is486'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from
.text between 'checkCPUtype' (at offset 0xc0100130) and 'is486'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
parisc and parisc64 seem to name sections a little differently from other
targets. parisc64 gives spurious warnings like:
WARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .data.rel.ro between '.LC1' (at offset 0x0) and '.LC6'
and parisc gives spurious warnings like:
WARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .rodata.cst4 between '.LC1' (at offset 0x0) and '.LC6'
Given the other comments in modpost.c, it seems that the best solution is
to move rodata down to the 'match at start of name' section and add
.data.rel.ro to the 'match entire name' section.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'
o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.
o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
o MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
and serial console support is enabled.
o Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init
function and it calls functions which are of type __init().
(uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will
be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.
o Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might
have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which
can be of __init type. Don't generate warnings for those.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'serial8250_console' (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and 'serial8250_reg'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
