Re: [PATCH 7/11] i386: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:48:57PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:37:48 -0400
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't
> > define it otherwise linker will fail.
> 
> I get lots of this when building latest -mm for avr32:
> 
> .tmp_kallsyms2.S:643: Warning: right operand is a bignum; integer 0
> assumed
> 
> Reverting this patch makes the warnings go away. I think it's
> because on avr32, .init is the first section, not .text, so many of the
> offsets become negative and kallsyms doesn't seem to handle this very
> well. Here's a few lines from .tmp_kallsyms2.S:
> 
> kallsyms_addresses:
>         PTR     _text + 0xffffffffffff4000
>         PTR     _text + 0xffffffffffff4000
> 
> Any idea how to fix this? Could we introduce a new symbol that always
> marks the start of the image perhaps?
>

Hi Haavard,

Does the attached patch solve the issue for you?

Thanks
Vivek
 


o On some platforms like avr32, section init comes before .text and 
  not necessarily a symbol's relative position w.r.t _text is positive. 
  In such cases assembler detects the overflow and emits warning. This
  patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
---

 scripts/kallsyms.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN scripts/kallsyms.c~i386-reloc-kallsyms-_text-symbol-relative-address-fix scripts/kallsyms.c
--- linux-2.6.19-rc4-reloc/scripts/kallsyms.c~i386-reloc-kallsyms-_text-symbol-relative-address-fix	2006-11-06 10:47:01.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc4-reloc-root/scripts/kallsyms.c	2006-11-06 10:47:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -277,8 +277,12 @@ static void write_src(void)
 	output_label("kallsyms_addresses");
 	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
 		if (toupper(table[i].sym[0]) != 'A') {
-			printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
-				table[i].addr - _text);
+			if (_text <= table[i].addr)
+				printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
+					table[i].addr - _text);
+			else
+				printf("\tPTR\t_text - %#llx\n",
+					_text - table[i].addr);
 		} else {
 			printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
 		}
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