I started to look into the problem why we get the
WARNING: Out of order unwind entry!
warning messages at kernel bootup in dmesg.
It's related to a binutils/linker bug, that ld does not correctly
removes unlink information for unused weak symbols, which have been
replaced by their non-weak ones.
In my kernel I could track it down to 2 symbols:
- arch_mod_section_prepend() from kernel/module.c, and
- save_stack_trace_tsk().
Here is the extract of the readelf output on vmlinux:
...
<inb>: [0x1011fbd4-0x1011fc48]
Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<arch_mod_section_prepend>: [0x1011fc4c-0x1011fc74]
Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Total_frame_size=8
<arch_mod_section_prepend>: [0x1011fc4c-0x10167cf4]
Entry_GR=1 Save_SP Total_frame_size=8
<module_arch_cleanup>: [0x1011fc78-0x1011fcb8]
Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
...
same for "save_stack_trace_tsk":
<dump_trace>: [0x10120834-0x10120950]
Entry_GR=7 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=80
<save_stack_trace_tsk>: [0x10120954-0x101209a4]
Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<save_stack_trace_tsk>: [0x10120954-0x1015c7a8]
Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
<save_stack_trace>: [0x101209a8-0x10120a04]
Entry_GR=2 Save_SP Save_RP Total_frame_size=8
as you can see, both functions (weak and non-weak) are in the
unwind section, although the functions were only linked
once each into the vmlinux binary.
That said, maybe someone of you with binutils/ld knowledge have
some idea or hint how to fix this (aka drop the weak entry completely
from the unwind section) ?
If not, I'll continue to dig into the binutils sources (although
this takes time, as I'm just starting with this)...
Helge
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