On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Olof's autobuilder <build@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here are the build results from automated periodic testing.
>
> The tree being built was stable-rc, found at:
>
> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
>
> Branch: linux-3.18.y
>
> Topmost commits:
> 4dc79b5 Linux 3.18.92-rc1
> 00d0655 e1000e: Fix e1000_check_for_copper_link_ich8lan return value.
> b944e64 uas: ignore UAS for Norelsys NS1068(X) chips
>
> Runtime: 28m 37s
>
> Passed: 131
>
> Warnings: 20680
>
> No errors
>
>
> Warnings:
>
> arm64.allmodconfig:
> /tmp/ccmFH2sM.s:77: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .init_array.00100
> /tmp/ccmFH2sM.s:90: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .fini_array.00100
> /tmp/ccCNAAf2.s:50: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .init_array.00100
> /tmp/ccCNAAf2.s:63: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .fini_array.00100
> /tmp/cckbGzsX.s:337: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .init_array.00100
> /tmp/cckbGzsX.s:350: Warning: ignoring incorrect section type for .fini_array.00100
This is the result of a bug in the assembler that has since been
fixed. The warning
itself is apparently harmless, but it's annoying to get 20000 lines of
warnings for
a simple allmodconfig build. I would suggest backporting commit
cc622420798c ("gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST")
to all stable kernels 3.18, 4.1 and 4.4 that are affected by this.
Olof's build bot
only reported it for 3.18, but my interpretation is that he uses an
older toolchain
for that kernel, which triggers this warning, while newer assemblers are fixed.
The warning showed up in the past few days after Olof's build scripts
got adapted
to also report assembler warnings, rather than just compiler warnings.
The intention of the cc622420798c commit was to help with other issues of
compile testing, fixing this particular warning was an unintended side-effect.
Adding it to stable kernels will also help with the other issues it addressed at
the time, in particular CPU usage during 'allmodconfig' build testing.
Arnd