Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:12:04 +0530 | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections |
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On Friday 28 December 2012 02:18 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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 >
Thx, -Vineet
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