The patch titled
fix x86_64-mm-i386-reloc-kallsyms
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fix-x86_64-mm-i386-reloc-kallsyms.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: fix x86_64-mm-i386-reloc-kallsyms
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:48:57PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:37:48 -0400
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't
> > define it otherwise linker will fail.
>
> I get lots of this when building latest -mm for avr32:
>
> .tmp_kallsyms2.S:643: Warning: right operand is a bignum; integer 0
> assumed
>
> Reverting this patch makes the warnings go away. I think it's
> because on avr32, .init is the first section, not .text, so many of the
> offsets become negative and kallsyms doesn't seem to handle this very
> well. Here's a few lines from .tmp_kallsyms2.S:
>
> kallsyms_addresses:
> PTR _text + 0xffffffffffff4000
> PTR _text + 0xffffffffffff4000
>
o On some platforms like avr32, section init comes before .text and
not necessarily a symbol's relative position w.r.t _text is positive.
In such cases assembler detects the overflow and emits warning. This
patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/kallsyms.c~fix-x86_64-mm-i386-reloc-kallsyms scripts/kallsyms.c
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c~fix-x86_64-mm-i386-reloc-kallsyms
+++ a/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -277,8 +277,12 @@ static void write_src(void)
output_label("kallsyms_addresses");
for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
if (toupper(table[i].sym[0]) != 'A') {
- printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
- table[i].addr - _text);
+ if (_text <= table[i].addr)
+ printf("\tPTR\t_text + %#llx\n",
+ table[i].addr - _text);
+ else
+ printf("\tPTR\t_text - %#llx\n",
+ _text - table[i].addr);
} else {
printf("\tPTR\t%#llx\n", table[i].addr);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx are
clockevents-core-check-for-clock-event-device-handler-being-non-null-before-calling-it.patch
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