On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:29:17PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:18:27PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >the build with the attached .config was successful however I got during make
> >:
> > AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o
> > LD vmlinux.o
> > MODPOST vmlinux.o
> >WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0x247): Section mismatch: reference to
> >.init.text.1:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87')
> > CHK include/linux/version.h
> > HOSTCC scripts/unifdef
> > MKDIR include
> >
> >Does it help / make sense to report such warning ?
> >
> >The build was made with :
> >$> make mrproper && make rndconfig && <tweak config file> && make oldconfig
> >&& make
> >
> >Here's the config:
>
> Thanks. You have reported this. ;)
>
> I can't solve this problem. Let's Cc Rusty and Sam to see
> if they can solve this.
modpost gets confused by the section named ".init.text.1" - the additional '.1'
is unexpected.
Following untested patch should fix it.
Sam
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 93ac52a..b5f1cff 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -736,8 +736,8 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char
*tosec,
/* Check for pattern 3 */
if ((strcmp(fromsec, ".text.head") == 0) &&
- ((strcmp(tosec, ".init.data") == 0) ||
- (strcmp(tosec, ".init.text") == 0)))
+ ((strncmp(tosec, ".init.data", strlen(".init.data")) == 0) ||
+ (strncmp(tosec, ".init.text", strlen(".init.text")) == 0)))
return 1;
/* Check for pattern 4 */
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