linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 symbols start with '.'

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:53 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 symbols start with '.'

Hi Sam,

On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:39:35 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:45:01PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > which we want to skip during modpost processing.  We need this to make
> > some of the whitelisting work.
>
> I have a popwerpc64 crosscompiler and would like to reproduce
> this bug.
> What config shall I use to try it out.

I use allmodconfig, but that doesn't really build at the moment, so I
have attached a config that should build (with a recent Linus tree).

> Can you please supply the exact warning message too.

WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:.__alloc_bootmem_node from .text between '.sparse_index_alloc' (at offset 0x27df0) and '.__section_nr'

The '.sparse_index_alloc' doesn't match "sparse_index_alloc" in pat4sym
due to the '.' at the beginning.  I have seen another one as well, but
cannot reproduce it at the moment.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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