Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:46:38 +0530 | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections |
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On Wednesday 02 January 2013 06:19 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes: > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:17:20PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: >>> ARC relocatable object files contain one/more .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* >>> sections (collated by kernel/vmlinux.lds into .arcextmap in final link). >>> This section is used by debuggers to display the extension instructions >>> and need-not be loaded by target (hence !SHF_ALLOC) >>> >>> The final kernel binary only needs .arcextmap entry in modpost's ignore >>> list (section_white_list[]). However when building modules, modpost scans >>> each object file individually, hence tripping on non-aggregated >>> .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* entries as well. >> The list exist for this particular purpose. >> So acked. > Applied, thanks! > > Cheers, > Rusty.
Thanks Rusty. I'll drop this patch from my series.
-Vineet
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