linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] module: allow arch overrides for .init section names

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 17:45:00 +0200
From:   Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
To:     Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
Cc:     linux@...linux.org.uk, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...s.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] module: allow arch overrides for .init section
 names

+++ Vincent Whitchurch [11/05/20 13:48 +0200]:
>ARM stores unwind information for .init.text in sections named
>.ARM.extab.init.text and .ARM.exidx.init.text.  Since those aren't
>currently recognized as init sections, they're allocated along with the
>core section, and relocation fails if the core and the init section are
>allocated from different regions and can't reach other.
>
>  final section addresses:
>        ...
>        0x7f800000 .init.text
>        ..
>        0xcbb54078 .ARM.exidx.init.text
>        ..
>
> section 16 reloc 0 sym '': relocation 42 out of range (0xcbb54078 ->
> 0x7f800000)
>
>Allow architectures to override the section name so that ARM can fix
>this.
>
>Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>
>---
>v2: Add comment and move module_init_section() next to module_exit_section().

Thanks, this patch looks fine to me. You could add my:

   Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>

Alternatively, I can take this through modules-next if the second
patch gets a review and ack from an ARM maintainer.