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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>,
	John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>,
	Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
Subject: Out of order unwind entry warning
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:21:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE620E0.9040809@gmx.de> (raw)

I started to look into the problem why we get the
> WARNING: Out of order unwind entry!
warning messages at kernel bootup in dmesg.

It's related to a binutils/linker bug, that ld does not correctly
removes unlink information for unused weak symbols, which have been
replaced by their non-weak ones.

In my kernel I could track it down to 2 symbols:
- arch_mod_section_prepend()  from kernel/module.c, and
- save_stack_trace_tsk().

Here is the extract of the readelf output on vmlinux:
...
<inb>: [0x1011fbd4-0x1011fc48]
         Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<arch_mod_section_prepend>: [0x1011fc4c-0x1011fc74]
         Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Total_frame_size=8
<arch_mod_section_prepend>: [0x1011fc4c-0x10167cf4]
         Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Total_frame_size=8
<module_arch_cleanup>: [0x1011fc78-0x1011fcb8]
         Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
...

same for "save_stack_trace_tsk":

<dump_trace>: [0x10120834-0x10120950]
         Entry_GR=7 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=80
<save_stack_trace_tsk>: [0x10120954-0x101209a4]
         Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<save_stack_trace_tsk>: [0x10120954-0x1015c7a8]
         Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<save_stack_trace>: [0x101209a8-0x10120a04]
         Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8

as you can see, both functions (weak and non-weak) are in the
unwind section, although the functions were only linked
once each into the vmlinux binary.

That said, maybe someone of you with binutils/ld knowledge have
some idea or hint how to fix this (aka drop the weak entry completely
from the unwind section) ?
If not, I'll continue to dig into the binutils sources (although
this takes time, as I'm just starting with this)...

Helge

             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 22:21 Helge Deller [this message]
2009-10-26 23:41 ` Out of order unwind entry warning Kyle McMartin
2009-10-27  1:50   ` Randolph Chung
2009-10-27  2:24     ` Kyle McMartin
2009-10-27 23:19 ` John David Anglin
2009-10-28 21:42   ` Helge Deller
2009-10-28 22:00     ` Helge Deller
2009-10-28 23:10       ` John David Anglin
2009-10-29 20:51         ` Helge Deller
2009-10-29 13:20       ` Carlos O'Donell
2009-10-28 22:18     ` John David Anglin
2009-10-28 22:43       ` Helge Deller
2009-10-28 22:59         ` Helge Deller
2009-10-29  2:11           ` John David Anglin
2009-10-29 16:38             ` John David Anglin
2009-10-29 19:16           ` John David Anglin
2009-10-29 20:46             ` Helge Deller
2009-10-29 21:07               ` John David Anglin
2009-10-29 22:22                 ` Helge Deller
2009-10-29 23:35                   ` John David Anglin
2009-10-30 22:47                     ` Helge Deller
2009-10-31  0:41                       ` John David Anglin
2009-10-31  2:19                         ` John David Anglin
2009-10-31  7:39                           ` Helge Deller
2009-11-01 23:16                       ` John David Anglin
2009-11-02  1:40                         ` John David Anglin
2009-11-02  2:34                           ` John David Anglin
2009-11-02 21:02                             ` Helge Deller
2009-11-02 21:50                               ` John David Anglin
2009-11-02 22:20                                 ` Helge Deller
2009-11-02 22:31                                   ` James Bottomley
2009-11-02 22:43                                     ` Helge Deller
2009-11-02 22:52                                   ` Helge Deller
2009-11-02 23:23                                     ` John David Anglin
2009-11-03 21:10                                       ` Helge Deller
2009-11-03 21:36                                         ` John David Anglin
2009-11-03 21:43                                           ` Helge Deller
2009-11-03 21:54                                             ` John David Anglin
2009-11-03 22:04                                               ` Helge Deller
2009-11-04  0:57                                                 ` John David Anglin
2009-11-06 23:07                                                   ` Helge Deller
2009-11-07 20:11                                                     ` Kyle McMartin

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