Re: [PATCH] modpost: Fix section warnings for ARM for many compilers

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Feb 13 2012 - 17:27:04 EST


On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 01:24:01PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> It turns out that many compilers don't show section warnings on ARM
> currently because handling for ARM_CALL relocs are missing from
> modpost.c.
>
> Based on commit c2e26114 ([ARM] 3205/1: Handle new EABI relocations when
> loading kernel modules) it seems that R_ARM_PC24, R_ARM_CALL and
> R_ARM_JUMP24 can be handled the same way.
>
> As modpost.c includes elf.h, we need to also consider that at least
> Debian libc6-dev is missing defines for both R_ARM_CALL and R_ARM_JUMP24
> in /usr/include/elf.h.
Huh, even unstable's /usr/include/elf.h doesn't have these symbols.

> So for now let's just use the numbers in modpost.c.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Anybody got better ideas for dealing with the missing elf.h
> defines?
Maybe:

#ifndef R_ARM_CALL
#warning "you're elf.h include is outdated"
#define R_ARM_CALL 28
#endif

Best regards
Uwe

> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1505,6 +1505,8 @@ static int addend_arm_rel(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Shdr *sechdr, Elf_Rela *r)
> (elf->symtab_start + ELF_R_SYM(r->r_info));
> break;
> case R_ARM_PC24:
> + case 28: /* R_ARM_CALL */
> + case 29: /* R_ARM_JUMP24 */
> /* From ARM ABI: ((S + A) | T) - P */
> r->r_addend = (int)(long)(elf->hdr +
> sechdr->sh_offset +

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