[RFC] Kprobes for book-e

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:40:55 +0530
"Sulibhavi, Madhvesh" <madhvesh.s at ap.sony.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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

Um, weird.  What version of binutils and gcc are you using?

I've heard of problems with binutils 2.17, but I have no idea why that
would be.

josh