The patch titled gcov: add .data.gcov to data section has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is gcov-add-gcov-profiling-infrastructure-add-datagcov-to-data-section.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: gcov: add .data.gcov to data section From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Andrew Morton writes: > ia64 blew up in a perhaps similar fashion. See lkml thread > "ia64 allmodconfig on current mainline". > > The compiler is from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/ > (installable on redhatty systems, maybe others). This is the problem: Ld versions before about 2.18 or so (older than April 2007, I think) have a bug where they put things in the wrong order in the output file if you don't have all the sections listed in the vmlinux.lds with an AT() clause on each one (it seems they all have to have AT(), or none). With the gcov stuff turned on, we get a .data.gcov section which isn't mentioned in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, which triggers this bug. This works around the ld bug by making sure .data.gcov is mentioned in DATA_DATA. The patch below should work around the problem, and may help ia64 as well if it's the same problem there. If it does fix it for you, you can push it to Linus, since it touches a generic file. Here's a SOB in case you decide to do that (the previous paragraph should serve as a patch description). If you don't want to push this, I can do an equivalent fix in arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~gcov-add-gcov-profiling-infrastructure-add-datagcov-to-data-section include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h~gcov-add-gcov-profiling-infrastructure-add-datagcov-to-data-section +++ a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ *(.data) \ *(.data.init.refok) \ *(.ref.data) \ + *(.data.gcov) \ DEV_KEEP(init.data) \ DEV_KEEP(exit.data) \ CPU_KEEP(init.data) \ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from paulus@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch git-powerpc.patch x86-rename-iommu_num_pages-function-to-iommu_nr_pages.patch powerpc-rename-iommu_num_pages-function-to-iommu_nr_pages.patch introduce-generic-iommu_num_pages-function.patch powerpc-use-iommu_num_pages-function-in-iommu-code.patch gcov-add-gcov-profiling-infrastructure-add-datagcov-to-data-section.patch gcov-architecture-specific-compile-flag-adjustments-powerpc-moved-stuff.patch powerpc-hugetlb-pgtable-cache-access-cleanup.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html