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SubjectRe: [PATCH] recordmcount: Support empty section from recent binutils
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Le 29/11/2021 à 18:43, Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:43:23 +0000
> LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
>
>> Le 24/11/2021 à 15:43, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>> Looks like recent binutils (2.36 and over ?) may empty some section,
>>> leading to failure like:
>>>
>>> Cannot find symbol for section 11: .text.unlikely.
>>> kernel/kexec_file.o: failed
>>> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:287: kernel/kexec_file.o] Error 1
>>>
>>> In order to avoid that, ensure that the section has a content before
>>> returning it's name in has_rel_mcount().
>>
>> This patch doesn't work, on PPC32 I get the following message with this
>> patch applied:
>>
>> [ 0.000000] ftrace: No functions to be traced?
>>
>> Without the patch I get:
>>
>> [ 0.000000] ftrace: allocating 22381 entries in 66 pages
>> [ 0.000000] ftrace: allocated 66 pages with 2 groups
>
> Because of this report, I have not applied this patch (even though I was
> about to push it to Linus).
>
> I'm pulling it from my queue until this gets resolved.
>

I have no idea on how to fix that for the moment.

With GCC 10 (binutils 2.36) an objdump -x on kernel/kexec_file.o gives:

0000000000000000 l d .text.unlikely 0000000000000000 .text.unlikely
0000000000000000 w F .text.unlikely 0000000000000038
.arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add
0000000000000038 w F .text.unlikely 0000000000000038
.arch_kexec_apply_relocations


With GCC 11 (binutils 2.37) the same gives:

0000000000000000 w F .text.unlikely 0000000000000038
.arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add
0000000000000038 w F .text.unlikely 0000000000000038
.arch_kexec_apply_relocations


The problem is that recordmcount drops weak symbols, and it doesn't find
any non-weak symbol in .text.unlikely

Explication given at
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc2/source/scripts/recordmcount.h#L506

I have no idea on what to do.

Thanks
Christophe

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