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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:26:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF090A.3030505@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504082816.GA25378@roarinelk.homelinux.net>

Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:29:39PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> This is due to the SUSE specific section as you expected.
>> We ignore sections named ".comment" but not ".comment" sections
>> with something appended to the name.
> 
> 
> On a related note, I see tons of the following warnings cross-building for
> MIPS:
> 
> WARNING: init/mounts.o (.mdebug.abi32): unexpected non-allocatable section.
> Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?                              
> Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains                              
> section definitions for use in .S files.                                   
> 
> WARNING: init/mounts.o (.pdr): unexpected non-allocatable section.
> Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?                     
> Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains                     
> section definitions for use in .S files. 
> 
> 
> I added ".pdr" and ".mdebug*" to the whitelist;  the resulting kernels still
> work.  (gcc-4.3.3, binutils-2.19.1)
> 

I too think they are needed.  Are you going to prepare a patch?

David Daney

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03  9:05 Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings Jean Delvare
2009-05-03 10:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-03 10:42   ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-03 18:07     ` [PATCH] modpost: more complete endianness fixing Anders Kaseorg
2009-05-03 19:48       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04  8:00         ` Jean Delvare
2009-05-03 10:48   ` Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings Jean Delvare
2009-05-03 18:03     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-03 20:29       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04  7:58         ` Jean Delvare
2009-05-04  9:51           ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04  8:28         ` Manuel Lauss
2009-05-04  9:49           ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-04 10:05             ` Manuel Lauss
2009-05-04 15:24             ` David Daney
2009-05-04 15:26           ` David Daney [this message]
2009-05-03 18:18     ` Andreas Schwab

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