On Tue, 2016-12-01 at 12:14:22 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weig...@de.ibm.com> > > If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first > function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl > gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module > objects. > > This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create > such text sections. However, this has changed with a recent change > in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its > assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem. > > There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs > on the sparc64 platform. This patch uses the same method to handle > those on powerpc as well. > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weig...@de.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
