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kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386, arm and mips

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On i386, ARM and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show
usefull symbol name.  This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend
value.  This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with
apply_relocate() routine in kernel code.

Without this patch:
  MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0xf4) and 'try_name'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'

With this patch:
  MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'

Now modpost can detect "kernel_init" name (and whitelist it) and show
"set_up_list3s" name.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto
2007-05-17 01:14:38 +09:00
committed by Sam Ravnborg
parent 2560120997
commit f892b7d480
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@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ typedef union
#define ELF64_MIPS_R_SYM(i) \
((__extension__ (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i)).r_info_fields.r_sym)
#define ELF64_MIPS_R_TYPE(i) \
((__extension__ (_Elf64_Mips_R_Info_union)(i)).r_info_fields.r_type1)
#if KERNEL_ELFDATA != HOST_ELFDATA
static inline void __endian(const void *src, void *dest, unsigned int size)