linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc

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Message-Id: <4964CCA5.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:39:17 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	<ccache@...ts.samba.org>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out
	 ccache/distcc

>>> Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> 07.01.09 15:28 >>>
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:39:38PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> 07.01.09 14:12 >>>
>> >objcopy: not stripping symbol `__ksymtab_strings' because it is named in a relocation
>> 
>> Another thing I've never seen in any of my builds - these strings always
>> get relocations against the corresponding section symbol.
>
>Just to be clear; it doesn't always fail; it seems to be random (or at
>least, I haven't had time to try to suss out why sometimes
>__ksymtab_strings is being used in a relocation):

It's apparently happening only for modules which export symbols.

Jan

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