This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this patch modpost will throw spurious warnings: LD vmlinux SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 3645e98..c337246 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name) ".pdr", "__param", "__ex_table", + "__dbe_table", ".fixup", ".smp_locks", ".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */
