Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs)

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 12:33:29PM -0800, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:59, Linux Kernel Mailing List
> <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/e94965ed5beb23c6fabf7ed31f625e66d7ff28de
> 
> >    module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs
> >
> >    Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
> >    shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
> >    also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
> >    for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
> >    built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.
> >
> >    This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
> >    compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
> >    section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
> >    in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.
> 
> This commit causes the crash below on m68k (ARAnyM).
> Reverting this commit and its dependency
> 3b90a5b292321b2acac3921f77046ae195aef53f
> ("module: fix linker error for MODULE_VERSION when !MODULE and CONFIG_SYSFS=n")
> makes it boot again.
> 

Hi Geert,

Does the follwing help by any chance?

From d6fd4a6e0fc2d3f0a74962d4a6f663a46d230ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
diff --git a/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index ef33213..47e15eb 100644
--- a/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/m68knommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ SECTIONS {
 		*(__param)
 		__stop___param = .;
 
+		/* Built-in module versions */
+		. = ALIGN(4) ;
+		__start___modver = .;
+		*(__modver)
+		__stop___modver = .;
+
 		. = ALIGN(4) ;
 		_etext = . ;
 	} > TEXT

Thanks,

Dmitry