On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:45:47PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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; > Thanks for the patch, but no, still fails with: Cannot find symbol for section 8: .text.unlikely. kernel/kexec_file.o: failed make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:277: kernel/kexec_file.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Deleting file 'kernel/kexec_file.o'
