mips emit the following debug sections:
.mdebug* and .pdr
They were included in the check for non-allocatable section
and caused modpost to warn.
Manuel Lauss suggested to fix this by adding the relevant
sections to the list of sections we do not check.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Jean reported that he saw one warning for each module like the one below:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.
The warning appeared with the improved version of the
check of the flags in the sections.
That check already ignored sections named ".comment" - but SUSE store
additional info in the comment section and has named it in a SUSE
specific way. Therefore modpost failed to ignore the section.
The fix is to extend the pattern so we ignore all sections
that start with the name ".comment.".
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The missing TO_NATIVE(sechdrs[i].sh_flags) was causing many
unexpected non-allocatable section warnings when cross-compiling
for an architecture with a different endianness.
Fix endianness of all the fields in the ELF header and
section headers, not just some of them so we are not
hit by this anohter time.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Tested-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When you put
.section ".foo"
in an assembly file instead of
.section "foo", "ax"
, one of the possible symptoms is that modpost will see an
ld-generated section name ".foo.1" in section_rel() or section_rela().
But this heuristic has two problems: it will miss a bad section that
has no relocations, and it will incorrectly flag many gcc-generated
sections as bad when compiling with -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections.
On mips it fixes a lot of bogus warnings with gcc 4.4.0 lije this one:
WARNING: crypto/cryptd.o (.text.T.349): unexpected section name.
So instead of checking whether the section name matches a particular
pattern, we directly check for a missing SHF_ALLOC in the section
flags.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
There is some confusion on naming of the head section.
Correct naming is .head.text.
Fix comment so we use correct naming.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
While building the kernel, we end-up calling modpost with -K and -M
options for the same file (Modules.markers). This is resulting in
modpost's main function calling read_markers() and then write_markers() on
the same file.
We then have read_markers() mmap'ing the file, and writer_markers()
opening that same file for writing.
The issue is that read_markers() exits without munmap'ing the file and is
as a matter holding a reference on Modules.markers. When write_markers()
is opening that very same file for writing, we still have a reference on
it and cygwin (Windows?) is then making fopen() fail with EPERM.
Calling release_file() before exiting read_markers() clears that reference
(and memory leak) and fopen() then succeeds.
Tested on both cygwin (1.3.22) and Linux. Also ran modpost within
valgrind on Linux to make sure that the munmap'ed file was not accessed
after read_markers()
Signed-off-by: Cedric Hombourger <chombourger@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The old refok sections
.text.init.refok
.data.init.refok
.exit.text.refok
have been deprecated since commit
312b1485fb. After the other patches in
this patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up
by eliminating all the remaining references to them.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
new_module() itself already calls strdup() on its modname parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version 'struct module' using a dummy
export, but other things matter too:
1) 'struct modversion_info' determines the layout of the __versions section,
2) 'struct kernel_param' determines the layout of the __params section,
3) 'struct kernel_symbol' determines __ksymtab*.
4) 'struct marker' determines __markers.
5) 'struct tracepoint' determines __tracepoints.
So we rename 'struct_module' to 'module_layout' and include these in
the signature. Now it's general we can add others later on without
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Now platform_device is being widely used on SoC processors where the
peripherals are attached to the system bus, which is simple enough.
However, silicon IPs for these SoCs are usually shared heavily across
a family of processors, even products from different companies. This
makes the original simple driver name based matching insufficient, or
simply not straight-forward.
Introduce a module id table for platform devices, and makes it clear
that a platform driver is able to support some shared IP and handle
slight differences across different platforms (by 'driver_data').
Module alias is handled automatically when a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
is defined.
To not disturb the current platform drivers too much, the matched id
entry is recorded and can be retrieved by platform_get_device_id().
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Impact: fix link failure on certain toolchains with specific configs
Recent percpu change made x86_64 split .data.init section into three
separate segments - data.init, percpu and data.init2. data.init2 gets
.data.nosave and .bss.* and is followed by .notes segment. Depending
on configuration both segments might contain no data, in which case
the tool chain makes the section header to contain offset beyond the
end of the file.
modpost isn't too happy about it and fails build - as reported by
Pawel Dziekonski:
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 416 modules
FATAL: vmlinux is truncated. sechdrs[i].sh_offset=10354688 >
sizeof(*hrd)=64
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
Teach modpost that NOBITS section may point beyond the end of the file
and that .modinfo can't be NOBITS.
Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes a compile time warning which occurs whenever a static library
is linked into a kernel module. MODPOST tries to look for a
".<modulename>.cmd" file to look for its dependencies, but that file
doesn't exist or get generated for static libraries.
This patch prevents modpost from looking for a .cmd file when a module is
linked with a static library
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This makes modpost handle MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, xxxx).
I had to change the string pointers in the match table to char arrays,
and picked a size of 79 bytes almost at random -- do we need to make it
bigger than that? I was a bit concerned about the 'bloat' this
introduces into the match tables, but they should all be __initdata so
it shouldn't matter too much.
(Actually, modpost does go through the relocations and look at most of
them; it wouldn't be impossible to make it handle string pointers -- but
doesn't seem to be worth the effort, since they're __initdata).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.
Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.
This is the code that actually modifies the modules, adding the flag to
any files in the drivers/staging directory.
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
>
> I've been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they
> could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap. It
> appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is
> compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don't show up
> in Module.markers:
>
> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
> kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
>
> (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I
> added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.)
>
> Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in
> Module.markers, and apparently it's been claimed that it used to be
> there. Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting
> built? And is there a file that contains the equivalent information
> for markers located in non-modules code?
I think the problem comes from "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry"
(commit d35cb360c2)
Especially :
- add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
+ if (!mod->skip)
+ add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
}
return;
fail:
Here is a fix that should take care if this problem.
Thanks for the bug report!
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With 22454cb99f we added only the
first entry of the device table. We need to loop over the whole
device list.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Trying to compile the v850 port brings many compile errors, one of them exists
since at least kernel 2.6.19.
There also seems to be noone willing to bring this port back into a usable
state.
This patch therefore removes the v850 port.
If anyone ever decides to revive the v850 port the code will still be
available from older kernels, and it wouldn't be impossible for the port to
reenter the kernel if it would become actively maintained again.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
