Re: R_SPARC_13

[Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:02 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:46:21 +0000
> 
> > As an example from drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c function scsi_eh_wakeup().
> > 
> > This has relocation records of
>  ...
> > 0000000000002be4 R_SPARC_LO10      __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup
> > 0000000000002be4 R_SPARC_13        *ABS*+0x0000000000000008
>  ...
> > lduw    [%g1+%lo(__tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup)+8], %g2   ! __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup.state,
> 
> In a final object, the binutils linker should be using one
> R_SPARC_OLO10 relocation for this kind of expression on sparc64.  Not
> the two relocations on the same instruction it appears to be using
> here.  I think you're looking at an object output by the assembler
> and not the finally linked module.
> 
> You should also be careful about which objects you are analyzing.  You
> should be looking at the finally linked "foo.ko" file, not the
> individual "foo.o" objects, as the majority of the relocations go away
> when the linker puts together the final module.
> 
> Is that what you're doing?

Yes in this instance I was/am. Thanks for the explanation.

However the same R_SPARC_13 also exists in scsi_mod.ko. It exists in the
original Debian 2.6.37-trunk-sparc64 version and in my current build of
the same with the 8 byte alignment for _trace_events.


00000000000074a8 R_SPARC_HI22      __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup
00000000000074ac R_SPARC_LO10      __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup
00000000000074ac R_SPARC_13        *ABS*+0x0000000000000008
00000000000074bc R_SPARC_LO10      __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup
00000000000074bc R_SPARC_13        *ABS*+0x0000000000000020

    74a8:       03 00 00 00     sethi  %hi(0), %g1
    74ac:       c4 00 60 00     ld  [ %g1 ], %g2
    74b0:       80 a0 a0 00     cmp  %g2, 0
    74b4:       02 48 00 0c     be  %icc, 74e4 <scsi_eh_wakeup+0x50>
    74b8:       01 00 00 00     nop
    74bc:       e0 58 60 00     ldx  [ %g1 ], %l0

I guess that points towards the binutils linker not doing the correct
thing.

ld reports its version as

$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.20.1-system.20100303

and scsi_mod.ko is linked with the following command

ld -r -m elf64_sparc -T /richmtmp/linux-2.6-2.6.37/scripts/module-common.lds --build-id  -o drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.mod.o

Regards

Richard