Re: [BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:21:54AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
>On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:59 +0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 06:42 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> > We can easily workaround this issue by moving jiffies to a section or at
>> > least warn people if such binutils are using. what should we do?
>> 
>> I think we should do the workaround, but still get distros to update the
>> broken binutils.
>Here is my workaround.
>The problem is a lot of kernel versions are affected by this, fix all?
>
>
>
>The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is broken with new binutils, which will make boot
>panic. According to Lu Hongjiu, the affected binutils are from
>2.20.51.0.12 to 2.21.51.0.3, which are release since Oct 22 this year.
>At least ubuntu 10.10 is using such binutils. see:
>http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327
>The reason of boot panic is we have 'jiffies = jiffies_64;' in
>vmlinux.lds.S. The jiffies isn't in any section. In kernel build, there
>is warning saying jiffies is an absolute address and can't be
>relocatable. At runtime, jiffies will have virtual address 0.
>

Just curious, what change in binutils caused this? And what build
warning did you see? Section mismatch warning?

Thanks.