Hi, On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently, build_initial_tok_table() trims unused symbols, which is > called after sort_symbol(). > > It is not efficient to sort the huge table that contains unused entries. > Shrink the table before sorting it. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This started showing warnings on some 32-bit ARM platforms, due to kallsyms_relative_base changing: kallsyms_relative_base: - PTR _text - 0 + PTR _text - 0xfffffffffffffe20 The assembler started complaining: .tmp_kallsyms1.S: Assembler messages: .tmp_kallsyms1.S:15315: Warning: right operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed Also, I clearly see different output with this patch reverted and applied; I would expect no actual difference if it was correct. Can we please revert this for 5.5 while this is being sorted out? To reproduce, build for example am200epdkit_defconfig for ARCH=arm. I see it with GCC 8.2.0, binutils 2.30.0. Thanks, -Olof
