[RFC] Kprobes for book-e

Sulibhavi, Madhvesh madhvesh.s at ap.sony.com
Wed Jun 4 00:10:55 EST 2008


Josh Boyer wrote on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:22 PM
> What build issues?  Ebony should build fine for 2.6.26-rc3, unless
> you're trying to apply this patchset to it without the other 
> patches it
> requires.

I am trying without kprobes patches. I get build error
as below

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BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .bss lma 0xc034f000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section `.text' can't be allocated in
segment 0
/usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux-objcopy:
./vmlinux.strip.28275: Bad value
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .text lma 0xc0000000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .ref.text lma 0xc024e000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .devinit.text lma 0xc024f860
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .devexit.text lma 0xc0253624
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .rodata lma 0xc0254000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .pci_fixup lma 0xc02ebcc8 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __ksymtab lma 0xc02ec280 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __ksymtab_gpl lma 0xc02f0c58
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __kcrctab lma 0xc02f2620 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __kcrctab_gpl lma 0xc02f4b0c
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __ksymtab_strings lma 0xc02f57f0
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __param lma 0xc0302d74 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __ex_table lma 0xc0304000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __bug_table lma 0xc0305780 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .init.text lma 0xc0309000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .exit.text lma 0xc0321010 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .init.data lma 0xc0321bd4 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .init.setup lma 0xc03253e0 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .initcall.init lma 0xc032568c
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .con_initcall.init lma 0xc03258c4
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section __ftr_fixup lma 0xc03258d0 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .machine.desc lma 0xc0326000
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .data lma 0xc0327000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .data.init_task lma 0xc0348000
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .data.page_aligned lma 0xc034a000
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .data.cacheline_aligned lma
0xc034d000 overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .data.read_mostly lma 0xc034d100
overlaps previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section .bss lma 0xc034f000 overlaps
previous sections
BFD: ./vmlinux.strip.28275: section `.text' can't be allocated in
segment 0
/usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/powerpc-linux-objcopy:
./vmlinux.strip.28275: Bad value
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/treeImage.ebony] Error 1
rm arch/powerpc/boot/ebony.dtb
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
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> 
> You'll need to use either my git tree with Kumar's exception series
> applied, or use Kumar's tree.  The kprobes code is 2.6.27 material,
> so .26-rc3 (or -rc4) is too old.

I will try with kumar's git repository

-Madhvesh


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