RFC: [PATCH v2] Fixup modpost warnings in head*.S for ppc32

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 23 00:03:15 EST 2007


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:58:31 -0500 (CDT)
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Addess the following modpost warnings we get out of the ppc32 head
> files:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x358): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:early_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x380): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:machine_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x384): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:MMU_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3ae): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
> 
> Does anyone have any issues with this?  This version cleans up 40x based
> on the latest for-2.6.24 tree and removes the stabs defn from _ENTRY.

No signed-off-by on purpose?

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
> index a8e0457..00bdb6d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
> @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
>   *
>   * This is all going to change RSN when we add bi_recs.......  -- Dan
>   */
> -	.text
> -_GLOBAL(_stext)
> -_GLOBAL(_start)
> +	.section	.text.head, "ax"
> +_ENTRY(_stext);
> +_ENTRY(_start);
> 
>  	/* Save parameters we are passed.
>  	*/
> @@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ turn_on_mmu:
>   */
>  	. = 0xc0
>  crit_save:
> -_GLOBAL(crit_r10)
> +_ENTRY(crit_r10)
>  	.space	4
> -_GLOBAL(crit_r11)
> +_ENTRY(crit_r11)
>  	.space	4
> 
>  /*
> @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ finish_tlb_load:
>   * The PowerPC 4xx family of processors do not have an FPU, so this just
>   * returns.
>   */
> -_GLOBAL(giveup_fpu)
> +_ENTRY(giveup_fpu)
>  	blr

I had moved this bit below initial_mmu instead in my version.  I
realize there isn't much difference from a technical point of view, but
it seems misleading to label this one as _ENTRY.

josh



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