linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/mod/modpost.c: permit '.cranges' secton for sh64 architecture."

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:00:51 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/mod/modpost.c: permit '.cranges' secton
 for sh64 architecture."

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:19 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 4d10c223baab8be8f717df3625cfece5be26dead.
>
> Commit 37744feebc08 ("sh: remove sh5 support") removed the sh64 support
> entirely.
>
> If ".cranges" section is used for other architectures, it is easy to
> get it back.

I don't think that will be an issue. BFD has a comment about this
being a sh64-only section.  I couldn't find any other reference to
such a section.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> ---
>
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 620dc8c4c814..e15227ee58fc 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -742,7 +742,6 @@ static const char *const section_white_list[] =
>  {
>         ".comment*",
>         ".debug*",
> -       ".cranges",             /* sh64 */
>         ".zdebug*",             /* Compressed debug sections. */
>         ".GCC.command.line",    /* record-gcc-switches */
>         ".mdebug*",        /* alpha, score, mips etc. */
> --
> 2.32.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers