On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> This oops occurs for every module, not just af_packet.ko, at
> resolve_symbol()'s first call to __find_symbol().
Okay, the details I received so far seem to indicate that the appended
patch will fix it, though I didn't get actual confirmation it does.
If you experience crashes when loading modules (and have RH 8 binutils),
please give it a shot.
--Kai
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ChangeSet@1.947.1.2, 2003-01-16 16:29:31-06:00, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
kbuild: Fix __start_SECTION, __stop_SECTION
In a discussion with Sam Ravnborg, the following problem became apparent:
Most vmlinux.lds.S (but the ARM ones) used the following construct:
__start___ksymtab = .;
__ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(__ksymtab)
}
__stop___ksymtab = .;
However, the link will align the beginning of the section __ksymtab
according to the requirements for the input sections. If '.' (current
location counter) wasn't sufficiently aligned before, it's possible
that __ksymtab actually starts at an address after the one
__start___ksymtab points to, which will confuse the users of
__start___ksymtab badly. The fix is to follow what the ARM Makefiles
did for this case, ie
__ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__start___ksymtab = .;
*(__ksymtab)
__stop___ksymtab = .;
}
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diff -Nru a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Fri Jan 17 10:09:57 2003
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Fri Jan 17 10:09:57 2003
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@
} \
\
/* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \
- __start___ksymtab = .; \
__ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start___ksymtab = .; \
*(__ksymtab) \
+ __stop___ksymtab = .; \
} \
- __stop___ksymtab = .; \
\
/* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */ \
- __start___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
__gpl_ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__gpl_ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
*(__gpl_ksymtab) \
+ __stop___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
} \
- __stop___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
\
/* Kernel symbol table: strings */ \
__ksymtab_strings : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_strings) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
-
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