Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections

On Friday 28 December 2012 02:18 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:17:20PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:

quoted

ARC relocatable object files contain one/more .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.*
sections (collated by kernel/vmlinux.lds into .arcextmap in final link).
This section is used by debuggers to display the extension instructions
and need-not be loaded by target (hence !SHF_ALLOC)

The final kernel binary only needs .arcextmap entry in modpost's ignore
list (section_white_list[]). However when building modules, modpost scans
each object file individually, hence tripping on non-aggregated
.gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* entries as well.

The list exist for this particular purpose.
So acked.

quoted

Thus need for the 2 entires !

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <redacted>

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <redacted>


	Sam

Thx,
-Vineet