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[PATCH] remove modpost false warnings on ARM 

This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM
builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer.  A canonical
example would be driver method table entries:

  WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove
	from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4)

That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in
this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct.

The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists
references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ...  but
doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are not
otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols.

This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning
those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.
Then things work as expected.

Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of this
modpost bug....

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
David Brownell 2007-02-20 13:58:16 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3deac046e2
commit da68d61f89
1 changed files with 28 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -686,6 +686,30 @@ static Elf_Sym *find_elf_symbol(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Addr addr,
return NULL;
}
static inline int is_arm_mapping_symbol(const char *str)
{
return str[0] == '$' && strchr("atd", str[1])
&& (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.');
}
/*
* If there's no name there, ignore it; likewise, ignore it if it's
* one of the magic symbols emitted used by current ARM tools.
*
* Otherwise if find_symbols_between() returns those symbols, they'll
* fail the whitelist tests and cause lots of false alarms ... fixable
* only by merging __exit and __init sections into __text, bloating
* the kernel (which is especially evil on embedded platforms).
*/
static inline int is_valid_name(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Sym *sym)
{
const char *name = elf->strtab + sym->st_name;
if (!name || !strlen(name))
return 0;
return !is_arm_mapping_symbol(name);
}
/*
* Find symbols before or equal addr and after addr - in the section sec.
* If we find two symbols with equal offset prefer one with a valid name.
@ -714,16 +738,15 @@ static void find_symbols_between(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Addr addr,
symsec = secstrings + elf->sechdrs[sym->st_shndx].sh_name;
if (strcmp(symsec, sec) != 0)
continue;
if (!is_valid_name(elf, sym))
continue;
if (sym->st_value <= addr) {
if ((addr - sym->st_value) < beforediff) {
beforediff = addr - sym->st_value;
*before = sym;
}
else if ((addr - sym->st_value) == beforediff) {
/* equal offset, valid name? */
const char *name = elf->strtab + sym->st_name;
if (name && strlen(name))
*before = sym;
*before = sym;
}
}
else
@ -733,10 +756,7 @@ static void find_symbols_between(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Addr addr,
*after = sym;
}
else if ((sym->st_value - addr) == afterdiff) {
/* equal offset, valid name? */
const char *name = elf->strtab + sym->st_name;
if (name && strlen(name))
*after = sym;
*after = sym;
}
}
}