From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:65294 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbbDOKlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:41:36 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: add .text.fixup to OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:40:52 +0200 Message-ID: <2576764.pLO2LLU9HG@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <5641468.B6ky8Ch4vY@wuerfel> References: <5641468.B6ky8Ch4vY@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Rusty Russell Cc: Quentin Casasnovas , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel , Nicolas Pitre , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 15 April 2015 11:48:31 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Two correct patches for the 4.1 release clashed in a way that > caused modpost to fail badly, with hundreds warnings like > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(__ex_table+0x1014): Section mismatch in reference from the (unknown reference) (unknown) to the (unknown reference) .text.fixup:(unknown) > > The fix, as suggested by the warnings, is to add the new .text.fixup > section into the OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS list. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Fixes: 52dc0595d540 ("modpost: handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table") > Fixes: c4a84ae39b4a ("ARM: 8322/1: keep .text and .fixup regions closer together") > --- > The mostpost patch has not made it into 4.1 yet, so it's probably best to > add this fix on top of that to avoid breaking when Linus pulls it in. > Nevermind this patch, I'm way behind the times apparently, and multiple improvements of the original code have made it in since it was broken. Arnd