Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:53:44 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com, drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bogus objdump output from kernel object files?
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Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 at 01:40:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > btw, is something up with `make foo.lst'?  It hasn't worked for me for
>  some
>  > time.
>  > 
>  > bix:/usr/src/25> make mm/vmscan.lst
>  >   MKLST   mm/vmscan.lst
> 
>  Just doing 'objdump -d -r -l -j .text mm/vmscan.o' gives:
> 
>  mm/vmscan.o:     file format elf32-i386
> 
>  Disassembly of section .text:
> 
>  00000000 <shrink_slab>:
>  kswapd_init():
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  This is actually at offset 0 in .init.text
> 
>  mm/vmscan.c:176
>         0:       55                      push   %ebp
>  shrink_slab():
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  OK, back to the right location.

Looks like it's a binutils problem.

	http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2338

HJ said he'd try to get this fixed for the next binutils release.
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