prom_init.c must not modify the kernel image outside
of the .bss.prominit section. Thus make sure that
prom_init.o doesn't have anything in any of these:
.data
.bss
.init.data
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
index acb6b9226352..667df97d2595 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ OBJ="$2"
ERROR=0
+function check_section()
+{
+ file=$1
+ section=$2
+ size=$(objdump -h -j $section $file 2>/dev/null | awk "\$2 == \"$section\"
{print \$3}")
+ size=${size:-0}
+ if [ $size -ne 0 ]; then
+ ERROR=1
+ echo "Error: Section $section not empty in prom_init.c" >&2
+ fi
+}
+
for UNDEF in $($NM -u $OBJ | awk '{print $2}')
do
# On 64-bit nm gives us the function descriptors, which have
@@ -66,4 +78,8 @@ do
fi
done
+check_section $OBJ .data
+check_section $OBJ .bss
+check_section $OBJ .init.data
+
exit $ERROR
--
2.17.1
