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Date:	Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:37:46 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: Xen: WARNING: Absolute relocations present

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> writes:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> <--  snip  -->
>>
>> ...
>>   RELOCS  arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
>> Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
>> c0101f80 020c6501   R_386_32 00000000  xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc
>> c0101f9a 0221ea01   R_386_32 00000000  xen_save_fl_direct_reloc
>> ...
>>
>> <--  snip  -->
>>
>
> Hm.  Those are false alarms.  I guess I could do something to hide them, but
> there's nothing inherently wrong with correctly used abs symbols.  Is there
> someway to whitelist them?

Yes.  Just add them to arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c safe_abs_syms.

Eric
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