On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:07:50 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > [ Adding Steve Rostedt ] > > This error message comes from recordmcount. It probably can't handle > the missing STT_SECTION symbols which are getting stripped by the new > binutils. (Objtool also had trouble with that.) > > No idea why you only see this on 4.4 though. > Just taking a quick look, but would something like this work? I created this against v4.4.257. -- Steve diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.h b/scripts/recordmcount.h index 04151ede8043..698404f092d0 100644 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.h +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h @@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ static unsigned find_secsym_ndx(unsigned const txtndx, if (w2(ehdr->e_machine) == EM_ARM && ELF_ST_TYPE(symp->st_info) == STT_FUNC) continue; + if (ELF_ST_TYPE(symp->st_info) == STT_SECTION) + continue; *recvalp = _w(symp->st_value); return symp - sym0;
