From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] one kbuild fix for powerpc
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:16:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080612131650.GA13702@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
Hi Linus.
Following fix has been late as I have been sloppy to look into this.
Kumar has patiently reminded me and tested the follwing fix.
I could have made the patch a few lines smaller - but decided to add
a helper function and moved the obvious candidates to the helper function.
Please pull from:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes.git
Sam
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
commit 82e93ceaa5b55a8eb2b9b5454b2904b60781c763
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Thu Jun 12 15:02:55 2008 +0200
kbuild: ignore powerpc specific symbols in modpost
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
We have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library
routines with all module objects. The routines are intended for
handling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having
them as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to
link the same "library" code into the kernel).
Without this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail
to build modules with the added register save/restore module.
There were two obvious solutions:
1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage
2) To ignore the symbols in modpost
Option 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate
linking stage for single file modules.
This patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.
The symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:
_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 508c589..b763aba 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -467,6 +467,26 @@ static void parse_elf_finish(struct elf_info *info)
release_file(info->hdr, info->size);
}
+static int ignore_undef_symbol(struct elf_info *info, const char *symname)
+{
+ /* ignore __this_module, it will be resolved shortly */
+ if (strcmp(symname, MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX "__this_module") == 0)
+ return 1;
+ /* ignore global offset table */
+ if (strcmp(symname, "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_") == 0)
+ return 1;
+ if (info->hdr->e_machine == EM_PPC)
+ /* Special register function linked on all modules during final link of .ko */
+ if (strncmp(symname, "_restgpr_", sizeof("_restgpr_") - 1) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(symname, "_savegpr_", sizeof("_savegpr_") - 1) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(symname, "_rest32gpr_", sizeof("_rest32gpr_") - 1) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(symname, "_save32gpr_", sizeof("_save32gpr_") - 1) == 0) {
+ return 1;
+ }
+ /* Do not ignore this symbol */
+ return 0;
+}
+
#define CRC_PFX MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX "__crc_"
#define KSYMTAB_PFX MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX "__ksymtab_"
@@ -493,11 +513,7 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
if (ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) != STB_GLOBAL &&
ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) != STB_WEAK)
break;
- /* ignore global offset table */
- if (strcmp(symname, "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_") == 0)
- break;
- /* ignore __this_module, it will be resolved shortly */
- if (strcmp(symname, MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX "__this_module") == 0)
+ if (ignore_undef_symbol(info, symname))
break;
/* cope with newer glibc (2.3.4 or higher) STT_ definition in elf.h */
#if defined(STT_REGISTER) || defined(STT_SPARC_REGISTER)
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 13:16 Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-06-12 14:03 ` [GIT PULL] one kbuild fix for powerpc roel kluin
2008-06-12 14:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
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