linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Use address-of operator on section symbols

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:32:07 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Use address-of operator on section symbols

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 6:19 PM Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> On 6/23/20 8:59 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
> > just addresses.  Using the address of operator silences the warning
> > and does not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld
> > or gcc/ld (tested with diff + objdump -Dr).
>
> Thanks for your patch.  I tested this patch applied to v5.8-rc2 on a
> PS3 and it seems OK.

PS3?  Folks still have ones that can boot Linux?  Those ****ers took
my Yellow Dog Linux away from me; I enjoyed depositing that settlement
check!  Hopefully by now, folks have figured out how to roll back the
system firmware?

>
> Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
>
>
> --

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers