On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 12:11 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On architectures such as ARM that have a list of symbols exported from
> assembler in a separate C file, we get a lot of new warnings:
>
> WARNING: "__ashrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__lshrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_llsr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_lasr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_uidivmod" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__udivsi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "_change_bit" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_idiv" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__umodsi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_uidiv" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_idivmod" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__muldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__aeabi_ulcmp" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__raw_writesb" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> WARNING: "__raw_readsb" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
> ...
>
> This is not helpful, as these are clearly not static symbols
> at all. Suppress the warning in a case like this.
>
> Fixes: 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
This patch is not root-causing the problem,
rather it is hiding it.
I posted a real fix:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11137689/
> ---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 76c221dd9b2b..4265dd924933 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -2543,7 +2543,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> struct symbol *s = symbolhash[n];
>
> while (s) {
> - if (s->is_static)
> + if (s->is_static && s->export != export_unknown)
> warn("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
> s->name, s->module->name,
> export_str(s->export));
> --
> 2.20.0
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
