Hi Alan, Rusty, * Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Tony Luck wrote: >> The sorted ksymtab breaks ia64 (and possibly ppc64 and >> parisc too). [snip] >> The syntax you need for this* is: >> >> .long @fptr(____pagevec_lru_add) >> .long __kstrtab____pagevec_lru_add >> >> Note that you must only use the @fptr(name) syntax for >> function exports. Exported data items just need an address. >> >> -Tony >> >> * On ia64 ... powerpc and parisc might need something else. >> > Thanks! It doesn't sound too hard to retro-fit your suggestion. > > Still, I can't help wondering if I've done this all wrong :-/. Perhaps > I should avoid the assembler. Instead, I could write a tool to sort the > ksymtab elf sections in-place (and mangle their relocations > accordingly). That should preserve any special handling for function > symbols without arch-specific special cases. It would also concentrate > all the magic in one tool - rather than it being scattered between the > modpost tool, mod_export.h, tmp_exports.S, and vmlinux.lds.h. In the meantime, while Alan is deciding the proper way to fix this, would it be possible to drop the offending patch series from linux-next? It makes ia64 unbootable, and has ripple-through effects, since mmotm is based on linux-next these days. Thanks, /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
