linux-kernel - Re: [OpenRISC] [PATCH] openrisc: Add _text symbol to fix ksym build error

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:12:30 +0900
From:   Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>, openrisc@...ts.librecores.org,
        Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [OpenRISC] [PATCH] openrisc: Add _text symbol to fix ksym build
 error

Hi Geert,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 01:58:32PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Stafford,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com> wrote:
> > The build report reports:
> >
> >    .tmp_kallsyms1.o: In function `kallsyms_relative_base':
> >>> (.rodata+0x8a18): undefined reference to `_text'
> >
> > This is when using 'make alldefconfig'. Adding this _text symbol to mark
> > the start of the kernel as in other architecture fixes this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index ef31fc2..58eaca0 100644
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ SECTIONS
> >          /* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */
> >          . = LOAD_BASE ;
> >
> > +       _text = .;
> > +
> >         /* _s_kernel_ro must be page aligned */
> >         . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
> >         _s_kernel_ro = .;
> > @@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ SECTIONS
> >          * fixup is definitely necessary
> >          */
> >
> > +       _data = .;
> 
> This change is not mentioned in the patch description.
> Is it required? Does it fix something different?

Good point.

I was just adding what I saw as missing in others. Also what I read in
include/asm-generic/sections.h.  However, when I read a bit closer it
mentions its only optional.

I will remove, it does not fix anything.

-Stafford

> >         _sdata = .;
> >
> >         /* Page alignment required for RO_DATA_SECTION */
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds