On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:35:43AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:53:04AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > The __crc_... reference is definitely bogus - none should survive with the > > new .c->.o rule. Could you find out what object file they originate from? > > So can you, by use of arcane tool known as "grep"... It's in kernel/softirq.c > and that's genksyms parser being fucked in head. Look for TYPEOF_KEYW > in parse.y and you'll see. Especially amusing part is a kludge from > commit a89a0a2354ae666612968e254d650bfd04f11eb6... Any feedback on what to do to make it better? Never used typeof myself so I do not know the exact syntax. > > > The others look like a tools side behavioral difference, as I never saw any > > such. Is this problem sparc32-specific (I tested x86 and ia64 only)? What's > > the binutils version used? > > 2.18.50.0.6. > > And no, it's not tools side. What it is, AFAICT, is that sparc32 has > LDFLAGS_vmlinux = -r, which leaves a metric arseload of relocs that > wouldn't have survived into vmlinux otherwise. Look at .rela__ksymtab > in .tmp_vmlinux1, for example... The use of -r is to support the btfixup magic. I have been thinking of moving the btfixup phase so it happens _before_ the final link of vmlinux. This should help us here. But I never managed to really understand what the btfixup thing is all about and has then been sidetracked by funnier stuff. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
