On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Dave Martin <dave.martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:22:11PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:25:35PM +0000, Dave P. Martin wrote: >>> > SMP_ON_UP fixups lead to vmlinux link errors if those sections are >>> > discarded at link-time. In particular this may happen for built-in >>> > __exit stuff. >>> > >>> > This patch modifies the vmlinux linker script to reduce the amount >>> > of discarded sections, and tries to make sure that __exit sections >>> > are kept in. >>> > >>> > This is a hack and probably wrong! Further discussion is needed. >>> >>> Can you send the configuration which you see this problem with? >>> I've tried to build a kernel which inlines the spinlocks, but I find >>> that's not possible, so I'm doubting whether any fix is required for >>> mainline. >> >> Any news on this, or can it not be reproduced? >> > > Hi, apologies-- didn't see my mail for a bit. > > I get the problem with this tree and config (which builds with > SMP_ON_UP and THUMB2_KERNEL for omap3/4): > > Tree: git://git.linaro.org/people/dmart/linux-2.6-arm.git > dirty/arm/omap-thumb2+merged > Config: http://people.linaro.org/~dmart/arm_omap-thumb2+v2_config Note that this tree contains some extra patches (though I believe nothing is there which should cause the problem), and does not contain everything from rmk/devel -- so it's possible this has been fixed in the meantime or no longer occurs for some other reason... Cheers ---Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
