Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbWKFQgf (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:36:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753399AbWKFQgf (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:36:35 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:227 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753397AbWKFQge (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:36:34 -0500 Message-ID: <454F6431.1010108@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:34:57 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Haavard Skinnemoen CC: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/11] i386: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols References: <20061023192456.GA13263@in.ibm.com> <20061023193748.GH13263@in.ibm.com> <20061106154857.003dc9d9@cad-250-152.norway.atmel.com> In-Reply-To: <20061106154857.003dc9d9@cad-250-152.norway.atmel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1195 Lines: 34 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:37:48 -0400 > Vivek Goyal wrote: > >> Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't >> define it otherwise linker will fail. > > I get lots of this when building latest -mm for avr32: > > .tmp_kallsyms2.S:643: Warning: right operand is a bignum; integer 0 > assumed > > Reverting this patch makes the warnings go away. I think it's > because on avr32, .init is the first section, not .text, so many of the > offsets become negative and kallsyms doesn't seem to handle this very > well. Here's a few lines from .tmp_kallsyms2.S: > > kallsyms_addresses: > PTR _text + 0xffffffffffff4000 > PTR _text + 0xffffffffffff4000 > > Any idea how to fix this? Could we introduce a new symbol that always > marks the start of the image perhaps? > Maybe we should generate it as a signed value (-0x8000) instead of an unsigned value. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/