Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:48:16 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections |
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:17:20PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: > ARC relocatable object files contain one/more .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* > sections (collated by kernel/vmlinux.lds into .arcextmap in final link). > This section is used by debuggers to display the extension instructions > and need-not be loaded by target (hence !SHF_ALLOC) > > The final kernel binary only needs .arcextmap entry in modpost's ignore > list (section_white_list[]). However when building modules, modpost scans > each object file individually, hence tripping on non-aggregated > .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* entries as well.
The list exist for this particular purpose. So acked.
> > Thus need for the 2 entires ! > > Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam
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