Hi
On PA-RISC, with the kernel 6.12.9, I get unaligned pointer warnings when
a module is loaded. The warnings are caused by the fact that the
.gnu.linkonce.this_module section is not aligned to the appropriate
boundary. If I dump the module content with "objdump -h configs.ko", I get
this. Note that the .gnu.linkonce.this_module has "File off 000042d2" and
"Algn 2**4".
On x86-64, the same misalignment can be seen, but it doesn't cause
warnings because unaligned pointers are handled in hardware.
This seems to be a bug in the linker, because when I compile an old kernel
with a new linker, I also get the misalignment. Do you have an idea how to
work around this bug?
Mikulas
kernel-6.12.9, binutils from Debian ports:
configs.ko: file format elf64-hppa-linux
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00000040 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000040 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
1 .init.text 00000070 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000080 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
2 .exit.text 00000028 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000f0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
3 .rodata 00004015 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000118 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
4 .rodata.str1.8 00000010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000412d 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
5 .PARISC.unwind 00000030 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000413d 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
6 .modinfo 000000a1 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000416d 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
7 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000420e 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
8 .note.Linux 00000030 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00004232 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
9 .data 00000000 0000000000000030 0000000000000030 00004262 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
10 .exit.data 00000008 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00004262 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
11 .init.data 00000008 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000426a 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
12 .data.rel.ro 00000060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00004272 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
13 .gnu.linkonce.this_module 000002d0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000042d2 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA, LINK_ONCE_DISCARD
14 .bss 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000045a2 2**0
ALLOC
15 .comment 00000039 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000045a2 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
16 .note.GNU-stack 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000045db 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
With the kernel 6.10, I get this - the ".gnu.linkonce.this_module"
sections has "File off 00004210" and "Algn 2**4" - so, it is properly
aligned.
kernel 6.10, older binutils:
configs.ko: file format elf64-hppa-linux
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000040 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
1 .note.Linux 00000030 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000064 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
2 .text 00000040 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000098 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
3 .init.text 00000070 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000d8 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
4 .exit.text 00000028 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000148 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
5 .rodata 00003f45 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000170 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
6 .rodata.str1.8 00000010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000040b8 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
7 .PARISC.unwind 00000030 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000040c8 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
8 .modinfo 000000a1 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000040f8 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
9 .data 00000007 00000000000000a1 00000000000000a1 00004199 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
10 .exit.data 00000008 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000041a0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
11 .init.data 00000008 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000041a8 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
12 .data.rel.ro 00000060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000041b0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
13 .gnu.linkonce.this_module 000002d0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00004210 2**4
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA, LINK_ONCE_DISCARD
14 .bss 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000044e0 2**0
ALLOC
15 .comment 00000026 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000044e0 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
16 .note.GNU-stack 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00004506 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
