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linux/scripts/mod
Vivek Goyal ee6a8545a4 [PATCH] x86-64: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3)
o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'

o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
  section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
  symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
  for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
  we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.

o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
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.gitignore Add some basic .gitignore files 2005-10-18 08:26:15 -07:00
empty.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
file2alias.c [PATCH] EISA bus MODALIAS attributes support 2006-09-27 08:26:19 -07:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mk_elfconfig.c kbuild: replace abort() with exit(1) 2006-06-24 23:46:54 +02:00
modpost.c [PATCH] x86-64: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3) 2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
modpost.h kbuild: warn when a moduled uses a symbol marked UNUSED 2006-07-01 11:44:23 +02:00
sumversion.c kbuild: do not segfault in modpost if MODVERDIR is not defined 2006-02-19 09:51:22 +01:00