Re: [PATCH] Missing symbol prefix on vmlinux.lds.h

[Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>]

At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:06:59 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:26:24 -0400 Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry.
> > 
> > I got error ARCH=h8300.
> > init/main.c:781: undefined reference to `___early_initcall_end'
> > 
> > Same problem have
> > __start___bug_table
> > __stop___bug_table
> > __tracedata_start
> > __tracedata_end
> > __per_cpu_start
> > __per_cpu_end
> > 
> > If define symbol in vmlinux.lds, Use VMLINUX_SYMBOL macro.
> > VMLINUX_SYMBOL is add prefix charactor.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> > 
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |   14 +++++++-------
> >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > index 6d88a92..04cae96 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > @@ -333,9 +333,9 @@
> >  #define BUG_TABLE							\
> >  	. = ALIGN(8);							\
> >  	__bug_table : AT(ADDR(__bug_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
> > -		__start___bug_table = .;				\
> > +		VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___bug_table) = .;		\
> >  		*(__bug_table)						\
> > -		__stop___bug_table = .;					\
> > +		VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___bug_table) = .;			\
> >  	}
> >  #else
> >  #define BUG_TABLE
> 
> Strange.  The code you're fixing there was added by
> 
>   commit 7664c5a1da4711bb6383117f51b94c8dc8f3f1cd
>   Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
>   Date:   Fri Dec 8 02:36:19 2006 -0800
> 
>      [PATCH] Generic BUG implementation
>     
> 
> over a year ago.  I doubt if h8300 has been broken for that long, so
> something else must have triggered this failure.
> 
> Do you know what it was?

I don't know.
Check it.

-- 
Yoshinori Sato
<ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>