Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:33:08 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: Xen: WARNING: Absolute relocations present |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes: > > >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>> <-- snip --> >>> >>> ... >>> RELOCS arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs >>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present >>> Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym.Name >>> c0101f80 020c6501 R_386_32 00000000 xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc >>> c0101f9a 0221ea01 R_386_32 00000000 xen_save_fl_direct_reloc >>> ... >>> >>> <-- snip --> >>> >>> >> Hm. Those are false alarms. I guess I could do something to hide them, but >> there's nothing inherently wrong with correctly used abs symbols. Is there >> someway to whitelist them? >> > > Yes. Just add them to arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c safe_abs_syms. >
OK, how's this?
Subject: xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
The Xen code generates some abs symbols which are OK from a relocation perspective.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
--- arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
=================================================================== --- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c +++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static const char* safe_abs_relocs[] = { "__kernel_rt_sigreturn", "__kernel_sigreturn", "SYSENTER_RETURN", + "xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc", + "xen_save_fl_direct_reloc", }; static int is_safe_abs_reloc(const char* sym_name)
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