linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] kbuild, modpost: fix "unexpected non-allocatable" warning with SUSE gcc

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 14:00:25 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@...atech.com>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Manuel Lauss <mano@...rinelk.homelinux.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] kbuild, modpost: fix "unexpected non-allocatable" warning with SUSE gcc

>From 028ecebdd83cc4a7f8c7e96e28a5537d2ac98dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:17:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] kbuild, modpost: fix "unexpected non-allocatable" warning with SUSE gcc

Jean reported that he saw one warning for each module like the one below:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.

The warning appeared with the improved version of the
check of the flags in the sections.

That check already ignored sections named ".comment" - but SUSE store
additional info in the comment section and has named it in a SUSE
specific way. Therefore modpost failed to ignore the section.

The fix is to extend the pattern so we ignore all sections
that start with the name ".comment.".

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index a5c17db..268d457 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[])
 
 /* sections that we do not want to do full section mismatch check on */
 static const char *section_white_list[] =
-	{ ".comment", ".debug*", ".stab*", ".note*", ".got*", ".toc*", NULL };
+	{ ".comment*", ".debug*", ".stab*", ".note*", ".got*", ".toc*", NULL };
 
 /*
  * This is used to find sections missing the SHF_ALLOC flag.
-- 
1.6.3.rc3.40.g75b44

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