2.6.0-test5 "incorrect section attributes for .plt"

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Sep 23 04:05:02 EST 2003


On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:56:30AM -0700, Cliff White wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:23:42PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:58, Cliff White wrote:
> > > > System is an iBook2,
> > > > distro is Debian unstable
> > > > kernel is 2.6.0-test5 or current from
> > > > bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5
> > > >
> > > > gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)
> > > >
> > > > When compiling modules, i get this warning, repeatedly:
> > > >  CC [M]  sound/ppc/pmac.o
> > > > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > > > {standard input}:3: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .plt
> > > >
> > > > Then, this failure:
> > > >
> > > >   AS      arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o
> > > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S: Assembler messages:
> > > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S:220: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes
> > > > for .relocate_code
> > > > arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o: File truncated
> > > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S:281: FATAL: Can't write
> > > > arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o: File truncated
> > > > make[2]: *** [arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o] Error 1
> > > > make[1]: *** [arch/ppc/boot/common/] Error 2
> > >
> > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211668 .
> >
> > I followed up on this to lkml/kernelnewbies, and then saw this so (and
> > the bug# is cc'ed as well).  I suspect the problem is that binutils is
> > no longer happy with:
> > .section "foo","attrs"
> > ... asm ...
> > .previous
> > \n
> > \n
> > EOF
> > (and possibly just .previous\nEOF)
> >
> > But I don't think the .previous is needed anyhow, so if someone could
> > verify that the following works (vs 2.6 current, but also a problem in
> > 2.4)
> >
> > ===== arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S 1.6 vs edited =====
> > --- 1.6/arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S	Thu Aug 21 10:17:00 2003
> > +++ edited/arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S	Mon Sep 22 09:21:37 2003
> > @@ -277,6 +277,3 @@
> >  	addi	r3,r3,L1_CACHE_BYTES	/* Next line, please */
> >  	bdnz	00b
> >  10:	blr
> > -
> > -	.previous
> > -
> >
> > I'll check this into the kernel.
>
> I rebuilt binutils from source and was able to create a bootable kernel,
> I will try this patch

Don't bother, as has been pointed out it was a binutils bug.  If it
ain't broke, don't fix it :)

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