[PATCH] modpost: work correctly with tile coldtext sections

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Wed Jul 08 2015 - 17:21:21 EST


The tilegx and tilepro compilers use .coldtext for their unlikely
executed text section name, so an __attribute__((cold)) function
will (when compiled with higher optimization levels) land in the
the .coldtext section.

Modify modpost to add .coldtext to the set of OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS
so we don't get warnings about referencing such a section in an
__ex_table block, and then also modify arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c
so that it uses plain ".coldtext" instead of ".coldtext.memcpy".
The latter naming is a relic of an earlier use of -ffunction-sections,
which we no longer use by default.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Since this is a tile issue, should I push this through the tile tree?
Or does someone want to take it into a tree for modpost? Thanks.

arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c | 4 ++--
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c b/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c
index 88c7016492c4..97bbb6060b25 100644
--- a/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c
+++ b/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#define _ST(p, inst, v) \
({ \
asm("1: " #inst " %0, %1;" \
- ".pushsection .coldtext.memcpy,\"ax\";" \
+ ".pushsection .coldtext,\"ax\";" \
"2: { move r0, %2; jrp lr };" \
".section __ex_table,\"a\";" \
".align 8;" \
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
({ \
unsigned long __v; \
asm("1: " #inst " %0, %1;" \
- ".pushsection .coldtext.memcpy,\"ax\";" \
+ ".pushsection .coldtext,\"ax\";" \
"2: { move r0, %2; jrp lr };" \
".section __ex_table,\"a\";" \
".align 8;" \
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 91ee1b2e0f9a..12d3db3bd46b 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -886,7 +886,8 @@ static void check_section(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
#define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.unlikely", ".sched.text", \
".kprobes.text"
#define OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS ".ref.text", ".head.text", ".spinlock.text", \
- ".fixup", ".entry.text", ".exception.text", ".text.*"
+ ".fixup", ".entry.text", ".exception.text", ".text.*", \
+ ".coldtext"

#define INIT_SECTIONS ".init.*"
#define MEM_INIT_SECTIONS ".meminit.*"
--
2.1.2

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