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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: fix section mismatch check for vmlinux
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:25:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <466D2337.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)

>vmlinux does not contain relocation entries which is
>used by the section mismatch checks.
>Reported by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
>
>Use the individual objects as inputs to overcome
>this limitation.
>In modpost check the .o files and skip non-ELF files.
>
>Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

This still doesn't appear to catch all cases - since the checking logic works
on a per-module basis, references between the individual .o files aren't
being checked. A current instance where this is visible is x86-64's recently
added alloc_bootmem_high_node (non-__init, in arch/x86_64/mm/built-in.o)
calling __alloc_bootmem_core (__init, in mm/built-in.o). I suppose there's
no way around linking $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS) into vmlinux.o, and
checking that file instead.

Jan


             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-11  8:25 Jan Beulich [this message]
2007-06-11 21:50 ` Sam Ravnborg

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