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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:05:22 +0200
From: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1
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Gabriel C wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:48:50PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>>>> On 25/07/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Andi, this might be interesting for you
>>>>
>>>> make allmodconfig
>>>> make
>>>> [...]
>>>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
>>>> Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
>>>> c02041b3 00705601   R_386_32 c0308aa8  _sdata
>>> Who did spit out this warning. Can you please provide make V=1
>>> where we see the lines preceeding the warning.
>>>
>>> And config please.
>>>
>> config: "make allmodconfig"
>>
>> System.map would be more interesting, especially what is at 0xc02041b3.
> 
> I get here :
> 
> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
> Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
> c0202e73 00703601   R_386_32 c03071bc  _sdata
> 
> $ grep c03071bc System.map
> c03071bc R __tracedata_end
> c03071bc A _sdata


Guessing is this patch ?

gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:           __tracedata_end = .;
gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:+  _sdata = .;                     /* End of text section */