* [KBUILD] Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
@ 2007-07-10 8:16 Ralf Baechle
2007-07-17 9:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 2007-07-10 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sam Ravnborg, Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, linux-mips
This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3645e98..c337246 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
".pdr",
"__param",
"__ex_table",
+ "__dbe_table",
".fixup",
".smp_locks",
".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */
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* Re: [KBUILD] Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
2007-07-10 8:16 [KBUILD] Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init Ralf Baechle
@ 2007-07-17 9:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sam Ravnborg @ 2007-07-17 9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ralf Baechle; +Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, linux-mips
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:16:32AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
> intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
> patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
>
> LD vmlinux
> SYSMAP System.map
> SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
> MODPOST vmlinux
> WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Applied,
Sam
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