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SubjectRe: Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:05:17AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Anders, Sam,
>
> After your fix "kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch
> missing ax/aw", I get a lot of warnings like the following during
> modpost on x86-64:
>
> WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): 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.
>
> Apparently there's one such warning for every module on my system, that
> is, 907. That's a lot, and pretty annoying. How do I solve this? I don't
> know much about assembly.

Cannot reproduce here..

Can you send me your config so I can try to see if this is toolchain
version related.

Also what version of gcc/binutils are you using?
Is this x86 and 32/64 bit?

Sam


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