)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "8b8b76c045beb85c1c2b28e07eff6599a1e95cf1", "tree": "92cbaa67dc948afab82f6b2ec425fafe5cec1b1d", "parents": [ "1581c1cede3b180b77aa08024c6ca406252cc21f" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Jun 06 00:18:05 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jun 09 22:37:53 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: add hint about __refdata to modpost\n\nAs requested by Guennadi Liakhovetski\n\nCc: Guennadi Liakhovetski \u003cg.liakhovetski@gmx.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fd6c3a8dc44329d3aff9a578b5120982f63711ee", "tree": "ba7b7a183d0db95a4ddb33e83a075f963a2028e3", "parents": [ "6d9923219c6cd1df360f8823253717623f3ad348" ], "author": { "name": "Jan Beulich", "email": "jbeulich@novell.com", "time": "Thu Mar 12 10:58:33 2009 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jun 09 22:37:43 2009 +0200" }, "message": "initconst adjustments\n\n- add .init.rodata to INIT_DATA, and group all initconst flavors\n together\n- move strings generated from __setup_param() into .init.rodata\n- add .*init.rodata to modpost\u0027s sets of init sections\n- make modpost warn about references between meminit and cpuinit\n as well as memexit and cpuexit sections (as CPU and memory\n hotplug are independently selectable features)\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan Beulich \u003cjbeulich@novell.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4391ed6aa9a38cdfb48addd7a9b24a2ff099b1a7", "tree": "50d5dcda1a5d73c51c8c6e70858f8f276af1c29c", "parents": [ "028ecebdd83cc4a7f8c7e96e28a5537d2ac98dae" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon May 04 13:05:26 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon May 04 13:05:26 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild, modpost: fix unexpected non-allocatable warning with mips\n\nmips emit the following debug sections:\n.mdebug* and .pdr\n\nThey were included in the check for non-allocatable section\nand caused modpost to warn.\n\nManuel Lauss suggested to fix this by adding the relevant\nsections to the list of sections we do not check.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nReported-by: Manuel Lauss \u003cmano@roarinelk.homelinux.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "028ecebdd83cc4a7f8c7e96e28a5537d2ac98dae", "tree": "f14dce375101e368575d91042f8a648762998b50", "parents": [ "7d875a02864a35532543897195dfea2235815df8" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun May 03 22:17:37 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon May 04 13:05:06 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild, modpost: fix \"unexpected non-allocatable\" warning with SUSE gcc\n\nJean reported that he saw one warning for each module like the one below:\nWARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.\n\nThe warning appeared with the improved version of the\ncheck of the flags in the sections.\n\nThat check already ignored sections named \".comment\" - but SUSE store\nadditional info in the comment section and has named it in a SUSE\nspecific way. Therefore modpost failed to ignore the section.\n\nThe fix is to extend the pattern so we ignore all sections\nthat start with the name \".comment.\".\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nReported-by: Jean Delvare \u003ckhali@linux-fr.org\u003e\nTested-by: Jean Delvare \u003ckhali@linux-fr.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7d875a02864a35532543897195dfea2235815df8", "tree": "77949e1c62598f76b0921e593c81837d936869ed", "parents": [ "b4348f32dae3cb6eb4bc21c7ed8f76c0b11e9d6a" ], "author": { "name": "Anders Kaseorg", "email": "andersk@MIT.EDU", "time": "Sun May 03 22:02:55 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon May 04 13:05:03 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild, modpost: fix unexpected non-allocatable section when cross compiling\n\nThe missing TO_NATIVE(sechdrs[i].sh_flags) was causing many\nunexpected non-allocatable section warnings when cross-compiling\nfor an architecture with a different endianness.\n\nFix endianness of all the fields in the ELF header and\nsection headers, not just some of them so we are not\nhit by this anohter time.\n\nSigned-off-by: Anders Kaseorg \u003candersk@mit.edu\u003e\nReported-by: Sean MacLennan \u003csmaclennan@pikatech.com\u003e\nTested-by: Sean MacLennan \u003csmaclennan@pikatech.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b614a697dc17dff82f140d72d21a095f810fa7fb", "tree": "b16edfeaddf7e808d6fa4b71ee11e497968476b2", "parents": [ "c993971f4a7dc7ae43963aecb958395353c109ae" ], "author": { "name": "Anders Kaseorg", "email": "andersk@mit.edu", "time": "Thu Apr 23 16:49:33 2009 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri May 01 10:54:05 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild, modpost: Check the section flags, to catch missing \"ax\"/\"aw\"\n\nWhen you put\n .section \".foo\"\nin an assembly file instead of\n .section \"foo\", \"ax\"\n, one of the possible symptoms is that modpost will see an\nld-generated section name \".foo.1\" in section_rel() or section_rela().\nBut this heuristic has two problems: it will miss a bad section that\nhas no relocations, and it will incorrectly flag many gcc-generated\nsections as bad when compiling with -ffunction-sections\n-fdata-sections.\n\nOn mips it fixes a lot of bogus warnings with gcc 4.4.0 lije this one:\nWARNING: crypto/cryptd.o (.text.T.349): unexpected section name.\n\nSo instead of checking whether the section name matches a particular\npattern, we directly check for a missing SHF_ALLOC in the section\nflags.\n\nSigned-off-by: Anders Kaseorg \u003candersk@mit.edu\u003e\nTested-by: Ralf Baechle \u003cralf@linux-mips.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c993971f4a7dc7ae43963aecb958395353c109ae", "tree": "526d6bbdf37c5afabf4098d75563f15722ad07e9", "parents": [ "a182ad3d0f858f50bb719a48bb35a013e12366c5" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Apr 26 11:17:42 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri May 01 10:54:04 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix comment in modpost.c\n\nThere is some confusion on naming of the head section.\nCorrect naming is .head.text.\n\nFix comment so we use correct naming.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "99e3a1eb3c22bb671c6f3d22d8244bfc9fad8185", "tree": "9ef6d2953c553538732e0e9a4f444957422e2b53", "parents": [ "64e3da109404eed27f825ee3eb1fe465ded47979" ], "author": { "name": "Cedric Hombourger", "email": "chombourger@gmail.com", "time": "Sat Apr 25 09:38:21 2009 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri May 01 10:54:03 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix Module.markers permission error under cygwin\n\nWhile building the kernel, we end-up calling modpost with -K and -M\noptions for the same file (Modules.markers). This is resulting in\nmodpost\u0027s main function calling read_markers() and then write_markers() on\nthe same file.\n\nWe then have read_markers() mmap\u0027ing the file, and writer_markers()\nopening that same file for writing.\n\nThe issue is that read_markers() exits without munmap\u0027ing the file and is\nas a matter holding a reference on Modules.markers. When write_markers()\nis opening that very same file for writing, we still have a reference on\nit and cygwin (Windows?) is then making fopen() fail with EPERM.\n\nCalling release_file() before exiting read_markers() clears that reference\n(and memory leak) and fopen() then succeeds.\n\nTested on both cygwin (1.3.22) and Linux. Also ran modpost within\nvalgrind on Linux to make sure that the munmap\u0027ed file was not accessed\nafter read_markers()\n\nSigned-off-by: Cedric Hombourger \u003cchombourger@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: \u003cstable@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "27b1833279995e7c290a40cac4ef36ccea7e9283", "tree": "7efbe3f8c9dad692ea7a8bc04c6be2303b1296e6", "parents": [ "a0871e8cb8c3f5ee2ecc560ae73a35cd420440f9" ], "author": { "name": "Tim Abbott", "email": "tabbott@MIT.EDU", "time": "Mon Apr 27 14:02:27 2009 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Apr 27 19:51:58 2009 -0700" }, "message": "Remove unused support code for refok sections.\n\nThe old refok sections\n\n .text.init.refok\n .data.init.refok\n .exit.text.refok\n\nhave been deprecated since commit\n312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8. After the other patches in\nthis patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up\nby eliminating all the remaining references to them.\n\nSigned-off-by: Tim Abbott \u003ctabbott@mit.edu\u003e\nAcked-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0fa3a88cfdfc910d7f335aef588edf9819c05d54", "tree": "2e1657a2f083a46f052859557bc1826267a49303", "parents": [ "fe8d0a41081d6d0912386f3672ccc0bf1d675630" ], "author": { "name": "Jan Beulich", "email": "jbeulich@novell.com", "time": "Thu Mar 12 12:28:30 2009 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Apr 11 08:18:10 2009 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: remove pointless strdup() on arguments passed to new_module() in modpost\n\nnew_module() itself already calls strdup() on its modname parameter.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan Beulich \u003cjbeulich@novell.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8c8ef42aee8fcfb4128bb94c50d55c9f80ade525", "tree": "58141fdd1afc0887dcc3cb91ab4c7609df0963e7", "parents": [ "9cb610d8e35fe3ec95a2fe2030b02f85aeea83c1" ], "author": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Tue Mar 31 13:05:34 2009 -0600" }, "committer": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Tue Mar 31 13:05:34 2009 +1030" }, "message": "module: include other structures in module version check\n\nWith CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version \u0027struct module\u0027 using a dummy\nexport, but other things matter too:\n\n1) \u0027struct modversion_info\u0027 determines the layout of the __versions section,\n2) \u0027struct kernel_param\u0027 determines the layout of the __params section,\n3) \u0027struct kernel_symbol\u0027 determines __ksymtab*.\n4) \u0027struct marker\u0027 determines __markers.\n5) \u0027struct tracepoint\u0027 determines __tracepoints.\n\nSo we rename \u0027struct_module\u0027 to \u0027module_layout\u0027 and include these in\nthe signature. Now it\u0027s general we can add others later on without\nconfusion.\n\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "56fc82c5360cdf0b250b5eb74f38657b0402faa5", "tree": "d574e2561849aa76a5caac6cf2e791f524e33b7b", "parents": [ "130ace11a9dc682541336d1fe5cb3bc7771a149e" ], "author": { "name": "Tejun Heo", "email": "tj@kernel.org", "time": "Fri Feb 06 00:48:02 2009 +0900" }, "committer": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Thu Feb 05 20:25:43 2009 +0100" }, "message": "modpost: NOBITS sections may point beyond the end of the file\n\nImpact: fix link failure on certain toolchains with specific configs\n\nRecent percpu change made x86_64 split .data.init section into three\nseparate segments - data.init, percpu and data.init2. data.init2 gets\n.data.nosave and .bss.* and is followed by .notes segment. Depending\non configuration both segments might contain no data, in which case\nthe tool chain makes the section header to contain offset beyond the\nend of the file.\n\nmodpost isn\u0027t too happy about it and fails build - as reported by\nPawel Dziekonski:\n\n Building modules, stage 2.\n MODPOST 416 modules\n FATAL: vmlinux is truncated. sechdrs[i].sh_offset\u003d10354688 \u003e\n sizeof(*hrd)\u003d64\n make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1\n\nTeach modpost that NOBITS section may point beyond the end of the file\nand that .modinfo can\u0027t be NOBITS.\n\nReported-by: Pawel Dziekonski \u003cdzieko@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Tejun Heo \u003ctj@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a9860bf05f4cb94f60f8f3459908d5621f75dd06", "tree": "09649dba2e2e4a9467fb31f93ec6bfb80184ba5d", "parents": [ "061b1bd394ca8628b7c24eb4658ba3535da4249a" ], "author": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Wed Sep 24 14:46:44 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Fri Oct 10 15:31:06 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Staging: add TAINT_CRAP flag to drivers/staging modules\n\nWe need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/\ndirectory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about\nissues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good\nas they are normally used to.\n\nBased on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a\nTAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell\nenterprise kernel release.\n\nThis is the code that actually modifies the modules, adding the flag to\nany files in the drivers/staging directory.\n\nCc: Andreas Gruenbacher \u003cagruen@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Jeff Mahoney \u003cjeffm@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n\n" }, { "commit": "87f3b6b6fbcbfa715f0d0db3e7a63e65716a6d4e", "tree": "a6c18acb9196b965f6487450d7620f400879107d", "parents": [ "afed26d151ba90b08361d4af0223daa362136ebd" ], "author": { "name": "Mathieu Desnoyers", "email": "mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca", "time": "Mon Oct 06 09:30:12 2008 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Oct 06 16:34:19 2008 -0700" }, "message": "Marker depmod fix core kernel list\n\n* Theodore Ts\u0027o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e I\u0027ve been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they\n\u003e could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap. It\n\u003e appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is\n\u003e compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don\u0027t show up\n\u003e in Module.markers:\n\u003e\n\u003e kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u\n\u003e kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u\n\u003e kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u\n\u003e kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u\n\u003e\n\u003e (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I\n\u003e added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.)\n\u003e\n\u003e Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in\n\u003e Module.markers, and apparently it\u0027s been claimed that it used to be\n\u003e there. Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting\n\u003e built? And is there a file that contains the equivalent information\n\u003e for markers located in non-modules code?\n\nI think the problem comes from \"markers: fix duplicate modpost entry\"\n(commit d35cb360c29956510b2fe1a953bd4968536f7216)\n\nEspecially :\n\n - add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);\n + if (!mod-\u003eskip)\n + add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);\n }\n return;\n fail:\n\nHere is a fix that should take care if this problem.\n\nThanks for the bug report!\n\nSigned-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nTested-by: \"Theodore Ts\u0027o\" \u003ctytso@mit.edu\u003e\nCC: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nCC: David Smith \u003cdsmith@redhat.com\u003e\nCC: Roland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nCC: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCC: Wenji Huang \u003cwenji.huang@oracle.com\u003e\nCC: Takashi Nishiie \u003ct-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "32be1d22327743134974c7b2ec1e2a143b6b6f86", "tree": "328b1b18d4c3222684a4e3c52d355a8e93bc36a6", "parents": [ "07a887d399b84668bc26cd040d699b26ec3086c2" ], "author": { "name": "Ben Dooks", "email": "ben-linux@fluff.org", "time": "Tue Jul 29 22:33:44 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Jul 30 09:41:46 2008 -0700" }, "message": "scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix spelling of module and happens\n\nSpelling fixes in scripts/mod/modpost.c\n\nSigned-off-by: Ben Dooks \u003cben-linux@fluff.org\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d35cb360c29956510b2fe1a953bd4968536f7216", "tree": "1bdc33054c8c2c082f0f5cca119cdae548d8a7e1", "parents": [ "5f17156fc55abac476d180e480bedb0f07f01b14" ], "author": { "name": "Mathieu Desnoyers", "email": "compudj@krystal.dyndns.org", "time": "Mon Jul 21 14:21:38 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 22 09:59:41 2008 -0700" }, "message": "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry\n\nWhen a kernel was rebuilt, the previous Module.markers was not cleared.\nIt caused markers with different format strings to appear as duplicates\nwhen a markers was changed. This problem is present since\nscripts/mod/modpost.c started to generate Module.markers, commit\nb2e3e658b344c6bcfb8fb694100ab2f2b5b2edb0\n\nIt therefore applies to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and linux-next.\n\nI merely merged the patches from Roland, Wenji and Takashi here.\n\nCredits to\nRoland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nWenji Huang \u003cwenji.huang@oracle.com\u003e\nand\nTakashi Nishiie \u003ct-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com\u003e\n\nfor providing the individual fixes.\n\n- Changelog :\n - Integrated Takashi\u0027s Makefile modification to clear Module.markers upon\n make clean.\n\nSigned-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nCc: Roland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Wenji Huang \u003cwenji.huang@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Takashi Nishiie \u003ct-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com\u003e\nCc: \u003cstable@kernel.org\u003e\t\t[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4d7365d664e79710ac0e782a23443471ddf05bdd", "tree": "fb50ae07b59871082f43fb19b2ce112a546b64d8", "parents": [ "631025b4d87d5a9d7e04a1ed652d247191e223d4" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu Jun 12 15:02:55 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu Jun 12 16:41:48 2008 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: ignore powerpc specific symbols in modpost\n\nKumar Gala \u003cgalak@kernel.crashing.org\u003e wrote:\nWe have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library\nroutines with all module objects. The routines are intended for\nhandling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having\nthem as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to\nlink the same \"library\" code into the kernel).\n\nWithout this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail\nto build modules with the added register save/restore module.\n\nThere were two obvious solutions:\n1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage\n2) To ignore the symbols in modpost\n\nOption 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate\nlinking stage for single file modules.\n\nThis patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.\n\nThe symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:\n_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Kumar Gala \u003cgalak@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fd1db0a31319bd21c521b197ce17c557556b821b", "tree": "5c1100d26ca0fd8d74ca01b79f11b2a10ff826da", "parents": [ "a95bcfac2b5f353f99c6a338d77eb5584ab35d83" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@firstfloor.org", "time": "Thu May 08 13:41:11 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun May 11 10:10:51 2008 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: disable modpost warnings for linkonce sections\n\nDisable modpost warnings for linkonce sections\n\nMy build gives lots of warnings like\n\nWARNING: sound/core/snd.o (.gnu.linkonce.wi.mpspec_def.h.30779716): unexpected section name.\nThe (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.\nDid you forget to use \"ax\"/\"aw\" in a .S file?\nNote that for example \u003clinux/init.h\u003e contains\nsection definitions for use in .S files.\n\nBut for .linkonce. duplicated sections are actually ok and expected.\nSo just disable the warning for this case.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2fa365682943866baf85305ef701741fe41b27e0", "tree": "b0c8784cbc045e0b55b462fd679f83c35323bdbd", "parents": [ "4a27214d7be31e122db4102166f49ec15958e8e9" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Apr 26 21:07:26 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Apr 26 21:07:26 2008 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: soften MODULE_LICENSE check\n\nOnly modules that has other MODULE_* content\nshall have the MODULE_LICENSE() tag.\n\nThis fixes allmodconfig build on my box.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2d04b5ae1bf527201a7505c9be7526c43ebd2930", "tree": "10d94ee815e7c98f40bb8a1c24813c7fb6c3ae64", "parents": [ "35bb5b1e0e84cfa1a8906f7e6a77f391ff315791" ], "author": { "name": "Richard Hacker", "email": "lerichi@gmx.net", "time": "Thu Feb 28 09:40:52 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Apr 25 20:35:47 2008 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: support loading extra symbols in modpost\n\nThis patch adds a new command line option -E to modpost, expecting a symbol\nfile as an argument which is read prior to symbol processing. -E can be\nsupplied multiple times for as many files as is needed.\n\nWhen building kernel modules that depend on other modules not in the main\nkernel tree, modpost complains about undefined symbols:\n# make -C /path/to/linux/kernel M\u003d/path/to/my/module\n...\nBuilding modules, stage 2.\n....\nWARNING: \"rt_copy_buf\" [/home/rich/osc_etl_rtw/osc_kmod.ko] undefined!\n...etc\n\nThis situation occurs when modpost processes the new module\u0027s symbols. When\nit finds symbols not exported by the mainline kernel, it issues this warning.\n\nThe patch adds a new command line option -e to modpost which expects a symbol\nfile as an argument. The symbols listed in this file are added to modpost\u0027s\nsymbol tables during startup. -e can be supplied as often as required.\n\nThis patch works together with the second patch. It introduces a new make\nvariable, KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, which is used when calling modpost.\n\nSigned-off-by: Richard Hacker \u003clerichi@gmx.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "eed7d2798ce7b78547106d0c3557a88251b413d0", "tree": "2643c5c45f65c2a2743fc4b3f061ad7b2e37467b", "parents": [ "b69d3987f4360a5e7e9e55465b3cdd0cc204b79e" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Apr 25 20:13:30 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Apr 25 20:13:30 2008 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE\n\nAdrian Bunk suggested a build time check for\nmissing MODULE_LICENSE annotation in modules.\nThe build time check is fatal as we really\nwant this fixed for all modules.\nIn-tree modules should all have been fixed up by now.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4ce6efed48d736e3384c39ff87bda723e1f8e041", "tree": "961601d69caf571c5d3350d8d9f9075b844486b6", "parents": [ "d2532dd20a126020de407c1c2476a75b53fce7ac" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Mar 23 21:38:54 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@uranus.ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Mar 23 21:38:54 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds\n\nThe module alias support in the kernel have a consistency\ncheck where it is checked that the size of a structure\nin the kernel and on the build host are the same.\nFor cross builds this check does not make sense so detect\nwhen we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these\nsituations.\nThis fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building\nfor arm.\n\nAcked-by: Michael Buesch \u003cmb@bu3sch.de\u003e\nTested-by: Gordon Farquharson \u003cgordonfarquharson@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: stable@kernel.org\n" }, { "commit": "b1d2675a6466090b68d4ef63f9237b4d70a18857", "tree": "f7112797261dc10f265b9d9cb00d32f9127af97b", "parents": [ "00e962c5408b9f2d0bebd2308673fe982cb9a5fe" ], "author": { "name": "Geert Uytterhoeven", "email": "geert@linux-m68k.org", "time": "Sun Feb 17 14:12:10 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Feb 19 20:45:14 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: fix reversed symbol name order in modpost\n\nXXXINIT_TO_INIT and XXXEXIT_TO_EXIT warnings use the reversed symbol name order\nin the suggestion, e.g.:\n\n WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x36c): Section mismatch in reference from the function free_area_init_core() to the function .init.text:setup_usemap()\n The function __meminit free_area_init_core() references\n a function __init setup_usemap().\n If free_area_init_core is only used by setup_usemap then\n annotate free_area_init_core with a matching annotation.\n\nSigned-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven \u003cgeert@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b2e3e658b344c6bcfb8fb694100ab2f2b5b2edb0", "tree": "a2999226edcb6b293c2044716a0146c7f2f82a22", "parents": [ "fb40bd78b0f91b274879cf5db8facd1e04b6052e" ], "author": { "name": "Mathieu Desnoyers", "email": "mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca", "time": "Wed Feb 13 15:03:39 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Feb 13 16:21:20 2008 -0800" }, "message": "Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file\n\nThis adds some new magic in the MODPOST phase for CONFIG_MARKERS. Analogous\nto the Module.symvers file, the build will now write a Module.markers file\nwhen CONFIG_MARKERS\u003dy is set. This file lists the name, defining module, and\nformat string of each marker, separated by \\t characters. This simple text\nfile can be used by offline build procedures for instrumentation code,\nanalogous to how System.map and Module.symvers can be useful to have for\nkernels other than the one you are running right now.\n\nThe strings are made easy to extract by having the __trace_mark macro define\nthe name and format together in a single array called __mstrtab_* in the\n__markers_strings section. This is straightforward and reliable as long as\nthe marker structs are always defined by this macro. It is an unreasonable\namount of hairy work to extract the string pointers from the __markers section\nstructs, which entails handling a relocation type for every machine under the\nsun.\n\nMathieu :\n- Ran through checkpatch.pl\n\nSigned-off-by: Roland McGrath \u003croland@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers \u003cmathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca\u003e\nCc: David Smith \u003cdsmith@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7c0ac495e30b2b9becb79be2ff87642ed8ad8f0c", "tree": "61e08f7d60a79c51273fca72e6ad7e0b0b556c8e", "parents": [ "ff739b611f41a93338855c064959404f3b7c9bab" ], "author": { "name": "Geert Uytterhoeven", "email": "Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com", "time": "Tue Feb 05 11:38:49 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Feb 09 10:43:58 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild/modpost: Use warn() for announcing section mismatches\n\nmodpost: Use warn() for announcing section mismatches, for easy grepping for\nwarnings in build logs.\n\nAlso change an existing call from fprintf() to warn() while we\u0027re at it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven \u003cGeert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f666751a0ab1d1671855da7e98889256b9a5b1bb", "tree": "de79e009161fd940feb583af0536306ad5e2b79f", "parents": [ "b1d0e4f535e10775cffde922208b49629169aeaa" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Feb 06 21:51:18 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Feb 09 10:43:58 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild/modpost: improve warnings if symbol is unknown\n\nIf we cannot determine the symbol then print\n(unknown) to hint the reader that we failed to\nfind the symbol.\nThis happens with REL relocation records\nin arm object files.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fa95eb1f17a5fe7b3593cff4bf27dbe9ae6cac89", "tree": "51f55a88626983610e13a49c0f2272718036b012", "parents": [ "125e564582cbce6219397fc64556438420efae4c" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Feb 02 23:30:22 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Feb 03 08:58:08 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported\n\nWe have several legitimate uses where we export symbols\nannotated with one of:\n__devinit, __cpuinit, __meminit and their exit counterpart.\nSo let\u0027s stop warning about those being exported in favour\nof adding all sorts of workaround to silence the warning.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e5f95c8b7700a7bf1c2d24eedc677954d9aa0285", "tree": "cc7b0105a6acf863e508f51dc3450df080f0e0c9", "parents": [ "9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Feb 02 18:57:18 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Feb 03 08:58:07 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found\n\nWe have too many section mismatches detected at the moment.\nSo silence modpost and prevent the option from being\nset in a typical allyesconfig build.\n\nTell the user how to see all the deteils in the summary\nmessage from modpost.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e241a630374e06aecdae2884af8b652d3b4d6c37", "tree": "9b2bdf28122fe59a3479b7dcba2978db297409f0", "parents": [ "588ccd732ba2d32db8228802ef9283b583d3395f" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 20:13:13 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:19 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: warn about ld added unique sections\n\nIf there is a mixture of specifying sections for code in gcc\nand assembler then if the assembler code do not add\nthe \"ax\" flags the linker will see this as two different sections\nand generate unique sections for each. ld does so by adding a dot\nand a number.\nTeach modpost to warn if a section shows up that match this\npattern - but do this only for non-debug sections.\n\nIt will result in warnings like this:\n\nWARNING: vmlinux.o (.sched.text.1): unexpected section name.\nThe (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.\nDid you forget to use \"ax\"/\"aw\" in a .S file?\nNote that for example \u003clinux/init.h\u003e contains\nsection definitions for use in .S files.\n\nAll warnings seen with a defconfig build for:\nx86 (32+64bit) and sparc64 has been fixed (via respective maintainers).\n\narm, powerpc (64 bit), s390 (32 bit), ia64, alpha, sh4 checked - no\nwarnings seen with a defconfig build.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "588ccd732ba2d32db8228802ef9283b583d3395f", "tree": "435ad4432c165190d70b82f8392c37b375679b53", "parents": [ "f5eaa323eb6819d2f737ead42464efccaf2b98b9" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu Jan 24 21:12:37 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:18 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost\n\nIf the config option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set and\nwe see a Section mismatch present the following to the user:\n\nmodpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).\nTo see additional details select \"Enable full Section mismatch analysis\"\nin the Kernel Hacking menu (CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH).\n\nIf the option CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH is selected\nthen be verbose in the Section mismatch reporting from mdopost.\nSample outputs:\n\nWARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.text+0x7396): Section mismatch in reference from the function discover_ebda() to the variable .init.data:ebda_addr\nThe function discover_ebda() references\nthe variable __initdata ebda_addr.\nThis is often because discover_ebda lacks a __initdata\nannotation or the annotation of ebda_addr is wrong.\n\nWARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x74d58): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pci_serial_quirks to the function .devexit.text:pci_plx9050_exit()\nThe variable pci_serial_quirks references\nthe function __devexit pci_plx9050_exit()\nIf the reference is valid then annotate the\nvariable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:\n*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,\n\nWARNING: o-x86_64/vmlinux.o(__ksymtab+0x630): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_arch_register_cpu to the function .cpuinit.text:arch_register_cpu()\nThe symbol arch_register_cpu is exported and annotated __cpuinit\nFix this by removing the __cpuinit annotation of arch_register_cpu or drop the export.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3ff6eecca4e5c49a5d1dd8b58ea0e20102ce08f0", "tree": "9af53a5ce0054520be6d572f988a76f3ab4ef0c0", "parents": [ "bc395add945659e04cc7cf250755ba0edc1a9fdc" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Thu Jan 24 22:16:20 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:18 2008 +0100" }, "message": "remove __attribute_used__\n\nRemove the deprecated __attribute_used__.\n\n[Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam]\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "58fb0d4f2fd5773ec0158d1f2774dca6a03e6984", "tree": "0590916cf6ec3daa40be925bcb4ebc81316e64c6", "parents": [ "ff13f92690249061311c7cf69a89e5a2fb068811" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jan 23 21:13:50 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:18 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: simplified warning report in modpost\n\nRefactor code so the warning report function\ndoes nothing else than reporting warnings.\nAs a side effect some other code paths were cleaned\nup by this.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ff13f92690249061311c7cf69a89e5a2fb068811", "tree": "a15192d98d979afd825164ec9e999ed9a53f732f", "parents": [ "157c23c80eed84194440b487658398272eaebaf4" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jan 23 19:54:27 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:18 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: introduce a few helpers in modpost\n\nIntroducing helpers to retreive symbol and section\nnames cleaned up the code a bit.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "157c23c80eed84194440b487658398272eaebaf4", "tree": "26271b0758960f8479ab34b334a3e36f7598ae45", "parents": [ "310f8243a602e9ae950e81b17cbd18a4246674f9" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jan 22 21:44:32 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:18 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: use simpler section mismatch warnings in modpost\n\nThe typical layout is now:\nWARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x372ec): Section mismatch: reference to .devinit.text:pci_scan_one_pbm in \u0027psycho_scan_bus\u0027\n\nThis is first step towards more readable warnings.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "eb8f689046b857874e964463619f09df06d59fad", "tree": "ec726cd06764746a07689ede3b782c36a24d3e55", "parents": [ "f3fe866d59d707c7a2bba0b23add078e19edb3dc" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jan 20 20:07:28 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:21:17 2008 +0100" }, "message": "Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/data\n\nIntroducing separate sections for __dev* (HOTPLUG),\n__cpu* (HOTPLUG_CPU) and __mem* (MEMORY_HOTPLUG)\nallows us to do a much more reliable Section mismatch\ncheck in modpost. We are no longer dependent on the actual\nconfiguration of for example HOTPLUG.\n\nThis has the effect that all users see much more\nSection mismatch warnings than before because they\nwere almost all hidden when HOTPLUG was enabled.\nThe advantage of this is that when building a piece\nof code then it is much more likely that the Section\nmismatch errors are spotted and the warnings will be\nfelt less random of nature.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6c5bd235bfd0b92188915465c7dfb377c1a4d451", "tree": "5ec397cf5f65bc0e7eaa86fc2faa675f1ca7a339", "parents": [ "10668220a97cb8b3fa1011a252175737ba750d51" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jan 20 10:43:27 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:40 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: check section names consistently in modpost\n\nNow that match() is introduced use it consistently so\nwe can share the section name definitions.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "10668220a97cb8b3fa1011a252175737ba750d51", "tree": "d188c01135c3a1d23560616336a3c19dade98296", "parents": [ "5b24c0715fc4c71e60e9a684248cc49d62dfa900" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jan 13 22:21:31 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:40 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost\n\nChange the logic in modpost so we identify all the\nbad combinations of sections that refer to other\nsections.\nCompared to the previous approach we are much less\ndependent on knowledge of what additional sections\nthe tool chain uses and thus we can keep the false\npositives low.\n\nThe implmentation is changed to use a table based\nlookup and we now check all combinations in first\npass so we no longer need separate passes for init\nand exit sections.\n\nTested that the same warnings are generated for\nan allyesconfig build without CONFIG_HOTPLUG.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5b24c0715fc4c71e60e9a684248cc49d62dfa900", "tree": "d463896713b538ac9cf5ce637a9ee9d54d952055", "parents": [ "9ad21c3f3ecffeb56be7b35030d7ec2f30b6fe11" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Jan 18 21:49:29 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:40 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: code refactoring in modpost\n\nSplit a too long function up in smaller bits to make\nprgram logic easier to follow.\nA few related changes done due to parameter\nchanges.\n\nNo functional changes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9ad21c3f3ecffeb56be7b35030d7ec2f30b6fe11", "tree": "b13cef078ebe25ddfca57f64404a664440713672", "parents": [ "d1f25e6658943569f2713dfde1b9d74e2f6c7243" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Jan 18 21:04:34 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:40 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: try harder to find symbol names in modpost\n\nThe relocation record sometimes contained an address\nwhich was not an exactly match for a symbol.\n\nImplment some simple logic such that if there\nis a symbol within 20 bytes of the address contained\nin the relocation record then print the name of this\nsymbol.\n\nWith this change modpost could find symbol names\nfor the remaining .init.text symbols in my\nallyesconfig build for x86_64.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d1f25e6658943569f2713dfde1b9d74e2f6c7243", "tree": "b1c84264df8ed3941e6473f7126b13325c1aeacb", "parents": [ "fa220d89ad050cf5d970c0418ded019a80efedfb" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu Jan 17 21:17:42 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:40 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: fix so modpost can now check any .o file\n\nIt is very convinient to say:\nscripts/mod/modpost mm/built-in.o\n\nto check if any section mismatch errors occured\nin mm/ (as an example).\nFix it so this is possible again.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "df578e7d831b4d280bf7c621eafb737e78cd26eb", "tree": "05d203a209becc12ad0752be928c48544e1bbb4c", "parents": [ "07f766885879a1fd4502fb8dd531d1fe3c575510" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Jan 11 19:17:15 2008 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:38 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: clean up modpost.c\n\nakpm complained about overly long lines in modpost.c and\nwhen started additional style issues were fixed:\n\no Updated my copyright\no Removed unneeded {}\no Drop assignments in if ()\no Spaces around operators\no Break long lines\no locate * near variable not type\no Fix a format specifier for sizeof()\no Corrected placement of \u0027{\u0027 and \u0027}\u0027\no spaces to tabs (but use tabs only for indention)\n\nmodpost.c is not checkpatch clean. Readability were favoured\non top of checkpatch compliance.\nBut checkpatch were used to find additional stuff to clean up.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "666ab414fe14e8bbbe86a110437346128e1ec869", "tree": "397dc03cba3aca4b0a1272fa927db89a7f3560e6", "parents": [ "58b7a68de37face98afe7c705391145795a982b5" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Nov 22 03:43:10 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:36 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: fix a buffer overflow in modpost\n\nWhen passing an file name \u003e 1k the stack could be overflowed.\nNot really a security issue, but still better plugged.\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "58b7a68de37face98afe7c705391145795a982b5", "tree": "9a59293b6b267f248228459082c695d3757542aa", "parents": [ "6d9a89ea4b06146d29e1ffb4d6fded286fa07d29" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Nov 22 03:43:09 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:36 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: fix format string warnings in modpost\n\nFix wrong format strings in modpost exposed by the previous patch.\nIncluding one missing argument -- some random data was printed instead.\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6d9a89ea4b06146d29e1ffb4d6fded286fa07d29", "tree": "0772c9e1e718d3ad231c575c9245653ec8ee5d3d", "parents": [ "6e588f6dcfcffa24decf418b96b4184a907d2bf8" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Nov 22 03:43:08 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jan 28 23:14:36 2008 +0100" }, "message": "kbuild: declare the modpost error functions as printf like\n\nThis way gcc can warn for wrong format strings\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4b21960f90d4d011e49e386d0525b1e89f320658", "tree": "76ed26482c119857411fa589fc94a98fc877eb3c", "parents": [ "37ab7a269637086d56940c31968f3fb3389b6d68" ], "author": { "name": "Trent Piepho", "email": "xyzzy@speakeasy.org", "time": "Thu Oct 11 16:40:10 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@neptun.(none)", "time": "Thu Oct 18 13:35:49 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: modpost problem when symbols move from one module to another\n\nWhen part of build an external module tree, modpost first reads in the\nkernel\u0027s and then the external tree\u0027s Module.symvers files. From these files\nit establishes a symbol \u003d\u003e module mapping. When it later reads in each module\nbuilt and processes the symbols it finds, it discovers the symbol\u003d\u003emodule\nmapping from Module.symvers and leaves it as it is.\n\nThe problem comes with a module has been re-named or a symbol has moved from\none module to another, since the Module.symvers file was generated. modpost\ndoes not update the symbol\u003d\u003emodule mapping when it finds the new location of\nthe symbol when scanning the newly built modules. This results in the module\ncontaining incorrect dependency information and the new Module.symvers file\nwritten by modpost will also contain the incorrect mappings, perpetuating the\nproblem to the next build, and so on.\n\nWhen building the out of kernel development tree for kernel subsystem, like\nv4l-dvb or ALSA, deleting the external Module.symvers file before building\n(which the kernel build system doesn\u0027t do and shouldn\u0027t be necessary anyway),\nwon\u0027t fix the problem. modpost still reads the kernel\u0027s Module.symvers, and\nsince we a building a kernel subsystem, it will define the same symbols as the\nexternal modules.\n\nSigned-off-by: Trent Piepho \u003cxyzzy@speakeasy.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a83710e584b8ef46fc44472ec6f0c342003416e8", "tree": "621cd4139b63f7a20efc5f29db54a34cfe0f64ea", "parents": [ "88f567f3a3c1901a40150b43fda87adad1b3e807" ], "author": { "name": "Petr Stetiar", "email": "ynezz@true.cz", "time": "Mon Aug 27 12:15:07 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@neptun.(none)", "time": "Fri Oct 12 21:15:30 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix segfault in modpost\n\nFix modpost segfault.\n\nBefore:\n-------\nynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o\nSegmentation fault\n\nAfter:\n------\nynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o\nFATAL: section header offset\u003d815726848 in file \u0027ath_pci.o\u0027 is bigger then filesize\u003d153968\n\nSam: This seems to warn for a binutils issue. Anyway modpost should not\nsegfault.\n\nSigned-off-by: Petr Stetiar \u003cynezz@true.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4665079cbb2a3e17de82f2ab2940b9f97f37d65e", "tree": "8e51e9b9e6155eaeccf28783620a07b20a067d8d", "parents": [ "d62a38d1ab350f787e4941e42a3d3e97971e38f5" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Emelyanov", "email": "xemul@openvz.org", "time": "Mon Oct 08 20:38:39 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "David S. Miller", "email": "davem@sunset.davemloft.net", "time": "Wed Oct 10 16:54:58 2007 -0700" }, "message": "[NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS\u003dn\n\nWith the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section,\nthus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before.\nSince we have a config option that prohibits the namespace\ncreation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns\nstuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot.\n\nCurrently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls\nare no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be\nmerged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to\nuse the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata \"attributes\"\nfor functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS\nis not set to save more space in memory.\n\nThe exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section,\nas noticed by David, since the init section will have\nreferences on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost\nchecks. These references can exist, since the init namespace\nnever dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I\nintroduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already\ndone with the __init_refok.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov \u003cxemul@openvz.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ad0b142772eb1f88f0e77cb63c38b0005e83c2bd", "tree": "0d985fc99986aaea1d22112cb11a63f42cab9b49", "parents": [ "db0031947bad3feafc217d5ac4f320021f57c740" ], "author": { "name": "Ralf Baechle", "email": "ralf@linux-mips.org", "time": "Tue Jul 31 00:38:47 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 31 15:39:40 2007 -0700" }, "message": "kbuild: whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init\n\nThis is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to\nintercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this\npatch modpost will throw spurious warnings:\n\n LD vmlinux\n SYSMAP System.map\n SYSMAP .tmp_System.map\n MODPOST vmlinux\nWARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\n\nSigned-off-by: Ralf Baechle \u003cralf@linux-mips.org\u003e\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "cb7e51d8b1f8e2390970f4bb7d095c414b1bf3cf", "tree": "e19f40c59cca4f8a028a34c78c23161422d902e7", "parents": [ "83cda2bb37cb8476cd84659d9698ab48553be974" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 22:24:52 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 22:24:52 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix modpost warnings for xtensa\n\nThe Xtensa architecture places literal pools in sections separate\nfrom the instructions. The corresponsing text sections, therefore,\nreference the .literal section, and we have to suppress those\nwarnings.\n\nThe naming convention defines the name for a literal\nsection as .SECTION.literal, unless .SECTION is .text. In that case\nthe name is only .literal. Using strncmp() instead of strcmp()\nto compare the from-section with .SECTION.init.refok in pattern 0\nshould not cause any regressions for other architectures.\n\nWe also need to suppress warnings for two informational\nsections (.xt.lit and .xt.prop) used by the Xtensa architecture.\n\nSigned-off-by: Chris Zankel \u003cchris@zankel.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "83cda2bb37cb8476cd84659d9698ab48553be974", "tree": "c0db0c2f3c6fa6c97e1185c0995c57d3ba3c87be", "parents": [ "2f5ee619045d923de9137b6a263a99cc2428391a" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 21:52:31 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 21:52:31 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: be more foregiving on init section naming\n\nIn the whitelist function of modpost now use the same\ncheck to identify init_section as in other places of modpost.\nThis has the effect that we now recognize sections named\n.init.text.19 as init sections and we no longer warn\nwhen we see these.\n\nAt the same time make surrounding code readable by dropping\nuse of temporary flags.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2f5ee619045d923de9137b6a263a99cc2428391a", "tree": "1a38942aa4fff5fd74ff71453e56de7325eb4ecd", "parents": [ "114f51577724b782a30f4f5ceaee9880de93d776" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 21:46:40 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 21:46:40 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: rearrange a few function in modpost\n\nThis is a preparational patch that just move\ntwo functions and add one (for now unused) function.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8d8d8289df65cb116d2721becafb37272074f25a", "tree": "388c4be27f36df9a1c4c60f8642dae74b3291af9", "parents": [ "80492cc797ea15572de8eac766cbf606626ee338" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Fri Jul 20 22:36:56 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Jul 25 21:14:15 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: do not do section mismatch checks on vmlinux in 2nd pass\n\nWe already check and warn about section mismatches from vmlinux\n(build as vmlinux.o) during first pass so skip the checks\nduring the 2nd pass where we process modules.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3a5df1d451cfe3a3d6d63f144554cac286eecba1", "tree": "8745932730368dcf5bed7ee5a269af08b9be693d", "parents": [ "8a0236743ecd591f16a749f5c06670c6ae9661be" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@ftp.linux.org.uk", "time": "Fri Jul 20 04:32:48 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Jul 20 08:24:49 2007 -0700" }, "message": "m68k: teach modpost about .m68_fixup\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "eec73e887a96b50035c92c57e01137dcbe6c5a39", "tree": "3aab0619b6b1e9af21746f1658a82e0141c90dd9", "parents": [ "a5eb6a502b71ee6bf1a9768b12ff4545cb7a50fe" ], "author": { "name": "Ralf Baechle", "email": "ralf@linux-mips.org", "time": "Tue Jul 10 09:16:32 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 11:15:48 2007 +0200" }, "message": "Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init\n\nThis is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to\nintercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this\npatch modpost will throw spurious warnings:\n\n LD vmlinux\n SYSMAP System.map\n SYSMAP .tmp_System.map\n MODPOST vmlinux\nWARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\n\nSigned-off-by: Ralf Baechle \u003cralf@linux-mips.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a5eb6a502b71ee6bf1a9768b12ff4545cb7a50fe", "tree": "52eae58a26a546373e93db17a582b1f5172f021b", "parents": [ "741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581" ], "author": { "name": "Jan Beulich", "email": "jbeulich@novell.com", "time": "Tue Jun 12 09:29:41 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 11:10:21 2007 +0200" }, "message": "modpost white list pattern adjustment\n\ngcc puts data into .data.rel or .data.rel.* on some architectures (e.g.\nia64) or under certain conditions, so whatever is legal relative to\n.data should also be legal for those other sections. Fixes a few\nmodpost warnings on ia64.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jan Beulich \u003cjbeulich@novell.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581", "tree": "2019e9c571c89e3101be86777d28f3ddeba67b79", "parents": [ "1e29a706eef664f2c5014462d435f54a1952cc7b" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:54:06 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:54:06 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux\n\nPreviously we did do the check on the .o files used to link\nvmlinux but that failed to find questionable references across\nthe .o files.\nCreate a dedicated vmlinux.o file used only for section mismatch checks\nthat uses the defualt linker script so section does not get renamed.\n\nThe vmlinux.o may later be used as part of the the final link of vmlinux\nbut for now it is used fo section mismatch only.\nFor a defconfig build this is instant but for an allyesconfig this\nadd two minutes to a full build (that anyways takes ~2 hours).\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1e29a706eef664f2c5014462d435f54a1952cc7b", "tree": "89695d77119f18843a37d823bcad441a1b527153", "parents": [ "92cc6b0725d800dcc3b9d62b419724050e4f7872" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jun 03 22:19:24 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:25:00 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text\n\narm uses a lot of ops structures named *_timer that has legitimite\nreferences to .init.text.\nSo let\u0027s add this variable to the list of variables that may reference\n.init.text without causing any warning.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "92cc6b0725d800dcc3b9d62b419724050e4f7872", "tree": "5a0ee778fa759fda83e2d3bf5bfdbc9ae7340d5d", "parents": [ "d3ab78560b9a244bdb2ba2ef0e53193832d311c2" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jun 03 00:47:53 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:24:55 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost\n\nReplaced this with a __init_refok marker\nin front of fb_find_logo().\n\nI think that the __initdata marker for the logo\u0027s are\nwrong but I have not justified this so I did not remove it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d3ab78560b9a244bdb2ba2ef0e53193832d311c2", "tree": "4c954f958c265d5c1bfc9dd42f06a26129a66386", "parents": [ "6fc53bae3d5940f1b123afa5ad082359b1a376be" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jun 03 00:05:10 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:24:51 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost\n\nReplace the hardcoded variable name apic_es7000 in modpost\nwith a __initdata_refok marker.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6fc53bae3d5940f1b123afa5ad082359b1a376be", "tree": "59a45339311e041265819a1e1b3f47a00c0afba8", "parents": [ "1d8af559f9ffd6847856f74658e501ed7ded9f01" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Jun 02 21:29:20 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:24:47 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text\n\nThe .exit.text section may be discarded either at build or at runtime.\nSo let modpost warn if this situation is detected.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1d8af559f9ffd6847856f74658e501ed7ded9f01", "tree": "b406c4ba1fd8fac25de3b298f863cb2532a68ab6", "parents": [ "1087247b7d8f1938425906d2ac983df76c6dcc18" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Jun 03 00:41:22 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:24:13 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: consolidate section checks\n\nMove more checks from whitelist to the section check functions.\nRemove the redundent pci_fixup check.\nRenumber the patterns.\nNo functional changes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1087247b7d8f1938425906d2ac983df76c6dcc18", "tree": "bfd2bfb82a68de0f74fa429258e8f7a233026df0", "parents": [ "b28242e7e3c08072251da6d7bc4895fbd3e58299" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat Jun 02 21:18:51 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 23:21:34 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability\n\nThere were a great deal of overlap between the two functions\nthat check which sections may reference .init.text and .exit.text.\nFactor out common check to a separate function and\nsort entries in the original functions.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b28242e7e3c08072251da6d7bc4895fbd3e58299", "tree": "db7b662012597c53db381d62e10844507b559dca", "parents": [ "1de564bbf8b630ab356571cdbd15b7d5adb1c20d" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue May 29 23:09:35 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 22:41:47 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section\n\n.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external\ntools to examine the kernel image. Since this is removed from any\nruntime consideration, it\u0027s OK to reference any section from a .note*\nsection.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1de564bbf8b630ab356571cdbd15b7d5adb1c20d", "tree": "3f04b53cd6ba721d5000fd75e3dbce14f23b2b8b", "parents": [ "1abe02fef95366208c264635a886785d18fd38bb" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@goop.org", "time": "Tue May 29 13:33:01 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 22:41:11 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn\u0027t need to handle it\n\nThe .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn\u0027t need to handle it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1abe02fef95366208c264635a886785d18fd38bb", "tree": "d59985ef79587a8773ddc1818e261cd823789a05", "parents": [ "56a974fa2d595fe6ebe433c525b8232ead539b76" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Rothwell", "email": "sfr@canb.auug.org.au", "time": "Thu May 24 14:16:13 2007 +1000" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 22:40:22 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: suppress modpost warnings for references from the .toc section as used by powerpc\n\nWe should do better here by effetively \"dereferencing\" references to\nthe .toc (or the .got2) section, but that is much harder.\n\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Rothwell \u003csfr@canb.auug.org.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "56a974fa2d595fe6ebe433c525b8232ead539b76", "tree": "7bbd0ac6d95e9b169176999efbaf633d9f87c7ed", "parents": [ "ae4ac12323c0ff80528cac3269151d580e23f923" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 22:39:35 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 22:39:35 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm\n\nWith this change we can find more symbols hereby improving\nthe readability of the warnings.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ae4ac12323c0ff80528cac3269151d580e23f923", "tree": "d284aebe7c743b3ea41a2d65a7bda1cf666de964", "parents": [ "b70e325cfe824ea0f6a1666b8b8db986e99c9603" ], "author": { "name": "Atsushi Nemoto", "email": "anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp", "time": "Tue May 22 18:27:39 2007 +0900" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 21:48:49 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386 and mips\n\nOn i386 and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show\nusefull symbol name. This is because empty \u0027refsym\u0027 due to 0 r_addend\nvalue. This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with\napply_relocate() routine in kernel code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto \u003canemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2648a53acf16a837e11836203aadb219bd951a1e", "tree": "dd96f97cb7e978b39ffe43f104a2b4f902e14fcc", "parents": [ "845a2fdcbd5bc5b9f652201ee95c825827a1d521" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jun 11 21:52:04 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Jun 11 21:52:04 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix sh64 section mismatch problems\n\nThere\u0027s a special .cranges section that is almost always generated,\nwith data being moved to the appropriate section by the linker at a later\nstage.\n\nTo give a bit of background, sh64 has both a native SHmedia instruction\nset (32-bit instructions) and SHcompact (which is compatability with\nnormal SH -- 16-bit, a massively reduced register set, etc.). code ranges\nare emitted when we\u0027re using the 32-bit ABI, but not the 64-bit one.\n\nIt is a special staging section used solely by binutils where code with\ndifferent flags get placed (more specifically differing flags for input\nand output sections), before being lazily merged by the linker.\n\nThe closest I\u0027ve been able to find to documentation is:\n http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ld/emultempl/sh64elf.em?rev\u003d1.10\u0026content-type\u003dtext/x-cvsweb-markup\u0026cvsroot\u003dsrc\n\nIt\u0027s an array of 8-byte Elf32_CRange structure given in\n http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elf32-sh64.h?rev\u003d1.4\u0026content-type\u003dtext/x-cvsweb-markup\u0026cvsroot\u003dsrc\nthat describes for which ISA a range is used.\n\nSilence the warnings by allowing references from .init.text to .cranges.\n\nThe following warnings are fixed:\n\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0xa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x28): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: init/built-in.o(.cranges+0x32): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x50): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x5a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x64): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0xfa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x104): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x10e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x154): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.cranges+0x15e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x6e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x78): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0x82): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o(.cranges+0xaa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x136): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x140): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x14a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x168): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1f4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: fs/built-in.o(.cranges+0x1fe): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x302): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x30c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x316): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x3a2): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x3ac): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x4ce): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\nWARNING: net/built-in.o(.cranges+0x4d8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:\n\nSigned-off-by: Paul Mundt \u003clethal@linux-sh.org\u003e\nCc: Kaz Kojima \u003ckkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "efa5bf1dd2cf3cdee0bfe97cfd76ff2296179ae4", "tree": "3e23385d3fa54c86689dcae49b60d47065d08a4e", "parents": [ "d6f2fe98ebc2dd8f3e9926673e0d8acd2c764e71" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon May 21 18:41:17 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon May 21 18:41:17 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Revert \"kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386, arm and mips\"\n\nThis reverts commit f892b7d480eec809a5dfbd6e65742b3f3155e50e, which\ntotally broke the build on x86 with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE (which, as far as\nI can tell, is the only case where it should even matter!) due to a\nSIGSEGV in modpost.\n\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Atsushi Nemoto \u003canemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "577a32f620271416d05f852477151fb51c790bc6", "tree": "9c4f219f59fc8117aa7d376d130d57f1ac841a8e", "parents": [ "92080309df1975729a9f8b45fd56528817e34db8" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu May 17 23:29:25 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:58 2007 +0200" }, "message": "mm: fix section mismatch warnings\n\nmodpost had two cases hardcoded for mm/\nShift over to __init_refok and kill the\nhardcoded function names in modpost.\n\nThis has the drawback that the functions\nwill always be kept no matter configuration.\nWith previous code the function were placed in\ninit section if configuration allowed it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "92080309df1975729a9f8b45fd56528817e34db8", "tree": "f82ec2fb2b1d5fa68af807b6acb1b033c7a34e17", "parents": [ "0e0d314e6a01bb14d303e35e6f7ba24b17020044" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu May 17 20:43:54 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:58 2007 +0200" }, "message": "init/main: use __init_refok to fix section mismatch\n\nKill a special case in modpost by introducing the\n__init_refok marker.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0e0d314e6a01bb14d303e35e6f7ba24b17020044", "tree": "596929a373bbbba7c2d7af4ae6e485a4c584b76f", "parents": [ "ca967258b69eb65dcb07bbab90fdf964c6d2ec45" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Thu May 17 20:14:48 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:58 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: introduce __init_refok/__initdata_refok to supress section mismatch warnings\n\nThroughout the kernel there are a few legitimite references\nto init or exit sections. Most of these are covered by the\npatterns included in modpost but a few nees special attention.\nTo avoid hardcoding a lot of function names in modpost introduce\na marker so relevant function/data can be marked.\nWhen modpost see a reference to a init/exit function from\na function/data marked no warning will be issued.\n\nIdea from: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "cd5477911fc9f5cc64678e2b95cdd606c59a11b5", "tree": "d893f07b0040d36dfc60040dc695384e9afcf103", "parents": [ "f892b7d480eec809a5dfbd6e65742b3f3155e50e" ], "author": { "name": "Li Yang", "email": "leoli@freescale.com", "time": "Mon May 14 18:04:28 2007 +0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:57 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: add \"Section mismatch\" warning whitelist for powerpc\n\nThis patch fixes the following class of \"Section mismatch\" warnings when\nbuilding powerpc platforms.\n\nWARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from prom_entry (offset 0x0)\nWARNING: arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:mpc8313_rdb_probe from .machine.desc after \u0027mach_mpc8313_rdb\u0027 (at offset 0x4)\n....\n\nSigned-off-by: Li Yang \u003cleoli@freescale.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f892b7d480eec809a5dfbd6e65742b3f3155e50e", "tree": "5c762c6d1049973204acc3997d26bdc44ba9bdcb", "parents": [ "2560120997403581dd824e5bd2389c719edcbf12" ], "author": { "name": "Atsushi Nemoto", "email": "anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp", "time": "Thu May 17 01:14:38 2007 +0900" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:57 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386, arm and mips\n\nOn i386, ARM and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show\nusefull symbol name. This is because empty \u0027refsym\u0027 due to 0 r_addend\nvalue. This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with\napply_relocate() routine in kernel code.\n\nWithout this patch:\n MODPOST vmlinux\nWARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between \u0027rest_init\u0027 (at offset 0xf4) and \u0027try_name\u0027\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between \u0027kmem_cache_create\u0027 (at offset 0x18a39) and \u0027cache_reap\u0027\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between \u0027kmem_cache_create\u0027 (at offset 0x18a6b) and \u0027cache_reap\u0027\n\nWith this patch:\n MODPOST vmlinux\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between \u0027kmem_cache_create\u0027 (at offset 0x18a39) and \u0027cache_reap\u0027\nWARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between \u0027kmem_cache_create\u0027 (at offset 0x18a6b) and \u0027cache_reap\u0027\n\nNow modpost can detect \"kernel_init\" name (and whitelist it) and show\n\"set_up_list3s\" name.\n\nSigned-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto \u003canemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2560120997403581dd824e5bd2389c719edcbf12", "tree": "4f4bb0ea08dc828864c315d67ba78ed352f6ea79", "parents": [ "03c9587d752669a12fd553b0cbd835f77b176607" ], "author": { "name": "Russell King", "email": "rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk", "time": "Thu May 10 23:03:25 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sat May 19 09:11:57 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: make modpost section warnings clearer\n\nChange modpost section mismatch warnings to be less confusing;\nmodel them on the binutils linker warnings which we all know how\nto interpret.\n\nAlso, fix the wrong ordering of arguments for the final case -\nfromsec and refsymname were reversed.\n\nSigned-off-by: Russell King \u003crmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nAcked-by: Acked-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e61a1c1c4f240cec61300c8f27518c3e47570fd4", "tree": "479d3b921577eaa642c4b1071acfeb4cb8ecf8ab", "parents": [ "b52f52a093bb1e841e014c2087b5bee7162da413" ], "author": { "name": "Roman Zippel", "email": "zippel@linux-m68k.org", "time": "Wed May 09 02:35:15 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed May 09 12:30:56 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Allow arch to initialize arch field of the module structure\n\nThis will later allow an arch to add module specific information via linker\ngenerated tables instead of poking directly in the module object structure.\n\nSigned-off-by: Roman Zippel \u003czippel@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven \u003cgeert@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "72280ede316911fd5a82ef78d12a6705b1007d36", "tree": "c6cdec169d300f6967c47771917d99035423bf91", "parents": [ "a3142c8e1dd57ff48040bdb3478cff9312543dc3" ], "author": { "name": "Yasunori Goto", "email": "y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Tue May 08 00:23:10 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:14:57 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Add white list into modpost.c for memory hotplug code and ia64\u0027s machvec section\n\nThis patch is add white list into modpost.c for some functions and\nia64\u0027s section to fix section mismatchs.\n\n sparse_index_alloc() and zone_wait_table_init() calls bootmem allocator\n at boot time, and kmalloc/vmalloc at hotplug time. If config\n memory hotplug is on, there are references of bootmem allocater(init text)\n from them (normal text). This is cause of section mismatch.\n\n Bootmem is called by many functions and it must be\n used only at boot time. I think __init of them should keep for\n section mismatch check. So, I would like to register sparse_index_alloc()\n and zone_wait_table_init() into white list.\n\n In addition, ia64\u0027s .machvec section is function table of some platform\n dependent code. It is mixture of .init.text and normal text. These\n reference of __init functions are valid too.\n\nSigned-off-by: Yasunori Goto \u003cy-goto@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "15700770ef7c5d12e2f1659d2ddbeb3f658d9f37", "tree": "7fa2f81c33c9efcb1a1568385beead75c5892cfb", "parents": [ "6de410c2b0cc055ae9ee640c84331f6a70878d9b", "11de39e2fbbc592018e0a231d0ee773653dcc8d6" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun May 06 13:21:57 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Sun May 06 13:21:57 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild\n\n* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits)\n kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault\n kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir\n kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found\n kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death\n kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message.\n kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help\n usr/Kconfig: fix typo\n kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of \u0027htmldocs\u0027\n kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file\n kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.\n kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh\n kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries\n kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es\n kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text\n kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c\n kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE\n kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man\n kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper\n kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode \u0027.config\u0027\n kbuild: override build timestamp \u0026 version\n ...\n" }, { "commit": "b4d5171ac7d9806b1ea61903ff954cd9620135bf", "tree": "0fa86c139e8525644d5cbe645ff5fb74963b230f", "parents": [ "66bd32e443203735b00f22bede637ec98f3070ca" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Apr 29 20:53:01 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:10 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text\n\nAdded on request from: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "66bd32e443203735b00f22bede637ec98f3070ca", "tree": "1f322dc34cebb99a1b6d77dbcaaf0e0c0947d4bd", "parents": [ "f03e1666d6164da6f098dc1a2e539eced3e4461a" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Sun Apr 29 20:40:53 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:10 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2a11665945d510e1a4df8dc44dc3668b01945ade", "tree": "e340bf738976eb780a3af774c20469c2000709b8", "parents": [ "63431e75691c410819023ab0e6cd047cbfcf64e2" ], "author": { "name": "Matthew Wilcox", "email": "matthew@wil.cx", "time": "Sat Oct 07 05:35:32 2006 -0600" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:08 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: distinguish between errors and warnings in modpost\n\nSome of modpost\u0027s warnings are fatal, and some are not. Adopt the\ncompiler distinction between errors and warnings by calling merror()\nfor fatal diagnostics and warn() for non-fatal ones.\nmerror() was used as replacemtn for error() to avoid clash with glibc\n\nSigned-off-by: Matthew Wilcox \u003cmatthew@wil.cx\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5a4910fbbeef14cc91daa41086449a1a4acebc96", "tree": "d81c13661f886b960712cdfd11f97a95a81d5922", "parents": [ "a61b2dfd1823506dbf1f9b046e0b09237ec1b985" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Tue Feb 27 09:14:58 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:08 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: whitelist logo references from .text to .init.data\n\ndrivers/video/logo has references from .text to .init.data\nbut function is only used during early init.\nSo reference is OK and we do not want to warn about them \u003d\u003e\nwhitelist the reference.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a61b2dfd1823506dbf1f9b046e0b09237ec1b985", "tree": "9d006090a43cc97a6d3edbaadde2c8f7ae5c5035", "parents": [ "9bf8cb9b7908383752b1842eae78269f7e16d9fb" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 19:46:52 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:07 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix segmentation fault in modpost\n\nIf modpost was called manually with filenames without \u0027/\u0027\nthen modpost would segfault.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9bf8cb9b7908383752b1842eae78269f7e16d9fb", "tree": "9f6e1c879c3723574939e4f491d8eacaea8830f2", "parents": [ "aae5f662a32c35b1a962627535acb588d48ff5f9" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 17:49:06 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:07 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix warnings from .pci_fixup section\n\nNow where we do not pass vmlinux to modpost we started\nto see section mismatch warnings from .pci_fixup.\nRefactored code a little to include these in the\nwhitelist again.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "aae5f662a32c35b1a962627535acb588d48ff5f9", "tree": "6e300ed8557e850e350c95dffb57ff9d5d5b182d", "parents": [ "85bd2fddd68e757da8e1af98f857f61a3c9ce647" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 16:45:41 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:07 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: whitelist section mismatch in init/main.c\n\nIn init/main.c we have a reference from rest_init() to .init.text\nwhich is intentional.\nRename the function \u0027init\u0027 to \u0027kernel_init\u0027 to make it a\nkernel wide unique symbol and whitelist the reference.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "85bd2fddd68e757da8e1af98f857f61a3c9ce647", "tree": "2570f9ac0ba8ecd6373fec48e923ead773319369", "parents": [ "dc87c3985e9b442c60994308a96f887579addc39" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 15:33:52 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed May 02 20:58:07 2007 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fix section mismatch check for vmlinux\n\nvmlinux does not contain relocation entries which is\nused by the section mismatch checks.\nReported by: Atsushi Nemoto \u003canemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp\u003e\n\nUse the individual objects as inputs to overcome\nthis limitation.\nIn modpost check the .o files and skip non-ELF files.\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1833d6bc72893265f22addd79cf52e6987496e0f", "tree": "8f7e85a034603325b7e5cc46bb5c832e49a6e3d9", "parents": [ "e073ae1b34d5600ffc550407625dcb2d4cf46c6e" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Wed May 02 19:27:08 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Wed May 02 19:27:08 2007 +0200" }, "message": "[PATCH] i386: modpost apic related warning fixes\n\no Modpost generates warnings for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE\u003dy\n\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_unisys_acpi_oem_table from .text between \u0027acpi_madt_oem_check\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101eda) and \u0027enable_apic_mode\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:acpi_get_table_header_early from .text between \u0027acpi_madt_oem_check\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101ef0) and \u0027enable_apic_mode\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between \u0027acpi_madt_oem_check\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101f2e) and \u0027enable_apic_mode\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:setup_unisys from .text between \u0027acpi_madt_oem_check\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101f37) and \u0027enable_apic_mode\u0027WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between \u0027mps_oem_check\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101ec7) and \u0027acpi_madt_oem_check\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:es7000_sw_apic from .text between \u0027enable_apic_mode\u0027 (at offset 0xc0101f48) and \u0027check_apicid_present\u0027\n\no Some functions which are inline (acpi_madt_oem_check) are not inlined by\n compiler as these functions are accessed using function pointer. These\n functions are put in .text section and they in-turn access __init type\n functions hence modpost generates warnings.\n\no Do not iniline acpi_madt_oem_check, instead make it __init.\n\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Len Brown \u003clenb@kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b0138a6cb7923a997d278b47c176778534d1095b", "tree": "4fcb8822a69631baba568e4e1942847747123887", "parents": [ "6572d6d7d0f965dda19d02af804ed3ae4b3bf1fc", "1055a8af093fea7490445bd15cd671020e542035" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 12:48:06 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Feb 26 12:48:06 2007 -0800" }, "message": "Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6\n\n* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits)\n [PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls\n [PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls\n Revert \"[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems\"\n [PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc\n [PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h\n Revert \"[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static\"\n [PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo\n [PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver\n [PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register\n [PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code\n [PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__\n [PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__\n [PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro\n [PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions\n [PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc\n [PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L\n [PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC()\n [PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS\n [PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c\n [PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal\n ...\n\nFix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made\npublicly available to PARISC again.\n" }, { "commit": "da68d61f89e275260cc993a0d4a39e63700098fb", "tree": "2b54d5e695cc233045cb854d7e1fc7470cd6d3a6", "parents": [ "3deac046e2883686a732960050ab74fca0db11fa" ], "author": { "name": "David Brownell", "email": "david-b@pacbell.net", "time": "Tue Feb 20 13:58:16 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Feb 20 17:10:16 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] remove modpost false warnings on ARM\n\nThis patch stops \"modpost\" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM\nbuilds, which it\u0027s been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical\nexample would be driver method table entries:\n\n WARNING: \u003cpath\u003e - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:\u003cname\u003e_remove\n\tfrom .data after \u0027$d\u0027 (at offset 0x4)\n\nThat \"$d\" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in\nthis case it\u0027s a symbol **in the middle of** a \"\u003cname\u003e_driver\" struct.\n\nThe erroneous warnings appear to be issued because \"modpost\" whitelists\nreferences from \"\u003cname\u003e_driver\" data into init and exit sections ... but\ndoesn\u0027t know should also include those \"$d\" mapping symbols, which are not\notherwise associated with \"\u003cname\u003e_driver\" symbols.\n\nThis patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning\nthose mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.\nThen things work as expected.\n\nNow to revert various code-bloating \"fixes\" that got merged because of this\nmodpost bug....\n\nSigned-off-by: David Brownell \u003cdbrownell@users.sourceforge.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Roman Zippel \u003czippel@linux-m68k.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e7b3ca08549caccf5d6e1cf066780bf4f0ae77a7", "tree": "7e5745bea06675cfce60d6813ee3b4d5e19cbb56", "parents": [ "62d0cfcb27cf755cebdc93ca95dabc83608007cd", "cb6efb39163bfb6bb6475fa7c8a5e08e44dbf14a" ], "author": { "name": "Kyle McMartin", "email": "kyle@parisc-linux.org", "time": "Sat Feb 17 00:18:23 2007 -0500" }, "committer": { "name": "Kyle McMartin", "email": "kyle@parisc-linux.org", "time": "Sat Feb 17 00:18:23 2007 -0500" }, "message": "Merge branch \u0027parisc\u0027 from /home/kyle/repos/parisc-2.6.git\n\nConflicts:\n\n\tarch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c\n\tarch/parisc/mm/ioremap.c\n" }, { "commit": "f8657e1b55901e6c227094258d1fa3642fa242bd", "tree": "da8fa95fcec1c160831f7fc6a569cb27cf81c63b", "parents": [ "7c0b49f9d1d59b3638c884b346a92dcb4ea1560a" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Tue Feb 13 13:26:22 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Tue Feb 13 13:26:22 2007 +0100" }, "message": "[PATCH] i386: move startup_32() in text.head section\n\no Entry startup_32 was in .text section but it was accessing some init\n data too and it prompts MODPOST to generate compilation warnings.\n\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from\n.text between \u0027_text\u0027 (at offset 0xc0100029) and \u0027startup_32_smp\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from\n.text between \u0027_text\u0027 (at offset 0xc0100037) and \u0027startup_32_smp\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to\n.init.data:init_pg_tables_end from .text between \u0027_text\u0027 (at offset\n0xc0100099) and \u0027startup_32_smp\u0027\n\no Can\u0027t move startup_32 to .init.text as this entry point has to be at the\n start of bzImage. Hence moved startup_32 to a new section .text.head and\n instructed MODPOST to not to generate warnings if init data is being\n accessed from .text.head section. This code has been audited.\n\no SMP boot up code (startup_32_smp) can go into .init.text if CPU hotplug\n is not supported. Otherwise it generates more warnings\n\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from\n.text between \u0027checkCPUtype\u0027 (at offset 0xc0100126) and \u0027is486\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from\n.text between \u0027checkCPUtype\u0027 (at offset 0xc0100130) and \u0027is486\u0027\n\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "742433b00b1c53d447a10f215cf887e4cb3406b5", "tree": "ab055b5408a1c2ebc4813f44b5cee2f97dd2713f", "parents": [ "29a1e1d2732c7bfa94465749285aea0f2ed12213" ], "author": { "name": "Matthew Wilcox", "email": "matthew@wil.cx", "time": "Mon Feb 05 16:34:00 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Kyle McMartin", "email": "kyle@athena.road.mcmartin.ca", "time": "Thu Feb 08 18:56:41 2007 -0500" }, "message": "[PATCH] PA-RISC: Fix bogus warnings from modpost\n\nparisc and parisc64 seem to name sections a little differently from other\ntargets. parisc64 gives spurious warnings like:\n\nWARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .data.rel.ro between \u0027.LC1\u0027 (at offset 0x0) and \u0027.LC6\u0027\n\nand parisc gives spurious warnings like:\n\nWARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .rodata.cst4 between \u0027.LC1\u0027 (at offset 0x0) and \u0027.LC6\u0027\n\nGiven the other comments in modpost.c, it seems that the best solution is\nto move rodata down to the \u0027match at start of name\u0027 section and add\n.data.rel.ro to the \u0027match entire name\u0027 section.\n\nCc: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\nCc: Kyle McMartin \u003ckyle@mcmartin.ca\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ee6a8545a4cbc620625c7956c95aac513842156b", "tree": "f8209ae7a289e593917beb8fb4b5dda00e6f5656", "parents": [ "118c0ace1b61433311ae4e067fdd32841baa7f91" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Thu Jan 11 01:52:44 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Thu Jan 11 01:52:44 2007 +0100" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86-64: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3)\n\no MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with\n CONFIG_RELOCATABLE\u003dy.\n\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between \u0027free_initmem\u0027 (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and \u0027do_test_wp_bit\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between \u0027core_kernel_text\u0027 (at offset 0xc012aeae) and \u0027kernel_text_address\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between \u0027core_kernel_text\u0027 (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and \u0027kernel_text_address\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between \u0027get_symbol_pos\u0027 (at offset 0xc0135776) and \u0027reset_iter\u0027\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between \u0027get_symbol_pos\u0027 (at offset 0xc013577d) and \u0027reset_iter\u0027\n\no These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init\n section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special\n symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated\n for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if\n we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.\n\no Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.\n\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "118c0ace1b61433311ae4e067fdd32841baa7f91", "tree": "f03f854626bf7d482e7138cf2df525380f754719", "parents": [ "e96763d6e52c22a8821466e4d01c0c995b8087be" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Thu Jan 11 01:52:44 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Thu Jan 11 01:52:44 2007 +0100" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86-64: modpost add more symbols to whitelist pattern2\n\no MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE\u003dy\n and serial console support is enabled.\n\no Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init\n function and it calls functions which are of type __init().\n (uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will\n be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.\n\no Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might\n have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which\n can be of __init type. Don\u0027t generate warnings for those.\n\nWARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between \u0027serial8250_console\u0027 (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and \u0027serial8250_reg\u0027\n\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "acd19499e9724615d720b29c74be6b218ce765c6", "tree": "9fc6df77c09e74aa980c7d99977522c507c34373", "parents": [ "d78437245aa3842e8eeaef2709753ac485465652" ], "author": { "name": "Randy Dunlap", "email": "randy.dunlap@oracle.com", "time": "Wed Dec 13 00:33:57 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Dec 13 09:05:47 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix section mismatch in parainstructions\n\nSection .parainstructions should not warn about section mismatches.\n\nWARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after \u0027\u0027 (at offset 0x0)\nWARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after \u0027\u0027 (at offset 0x8)\n\nSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nAcked-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "139ec7c416248b9ea227d21839235344edfee1e0", "tree": "54c396848b08367c0352c77f4633be6380a8eb16", "parents": [ "d3561b7fa0fb0fc583bab0eeda32bec9e4c4056d" ], "author": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Thu Dec 07 02:14:08 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "andi@basil.nowhere.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 02:14:08 2006 +0100" }, "message": "[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts\n\nIt turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,\nare the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for\npatching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.\n\nThe method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which\nis called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a\nnumber of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).\n\nUsually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to\nuse, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can\u0027t: we make\nthe clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the\nallowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.\n\nAnd:\n\nDon\u0027t abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.\n\nAnd:\n\nAK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build\n\nAnd:\n\nAK: Fix compilation with defconfig\n\nAnd:\n\n^From: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n\nSome binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and\n__start_parainstructions.\n\nAnd:\n\nAK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.\n\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Zachary Amsden \u003czach@vmware.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "21c4ff80cba5e24932f3ef79c8482c0491630b2b", "tree": "df44027a8f419057039f1709371b85cd57b52804", "parents": [ "0909c8c2d547e45ca50e2492b08ec93a37b35237" ], "author": { "name": "Benjamin Herrenschmidt", "email": "benh@kernel.crashing.org", "time": "Fri Oct 20 11:47:19 2006 +1000" }, "committer": { "name": "Paul Mackerras", "email": "paulus@samba.org", "time": "Wed Oct 25 11:54:13 2006 +1000" }, "message": "[POWERPC] Support feature fixups in modules\n\nThis patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves\nadding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.\nIt also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it\nwould warn when used in .init.text).\n\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Olof Johansson \u003colof@lixom.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c53ddacdc08d41f812f1e637d214251d14c07a3d", "tree": "f049bfa5703ecaac0f9694d2f8f60bfed8845c78", "parents": [ "2212692913281e5fddb1c50c8c123378cfc42169" ], "author": { "name": "Kirill Korotaev", "email": "dev@openvz.org", "time": "Thu Sep 07 13:08:54 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@neptun.ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Sep 25 09:14:30 2006 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved module symbols\n\nAt stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules. In case of unresolved\nsymbols modpost only prints warning.\n\nIMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved\nsymbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors\nare left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.\n\n- new option \u0027-w\u0027 is added to modpost:\n if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols\n\n- modpost is called with \u0027-w\u0027 for external modules in Makefile.modpost\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrey Mirkin \u003camirkin@sw.ru\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Kirill Korotaev \u003cdev@openvz.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "93659af1ce4974b1882668fee06458c0ac9315fd", "tree": "cce1792dc45864a79de718a115b015331a55768c", "parents": [ "4635281c8ea26e9f718c28f8f7713d10ad332eff" ], "author": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@mars.ravnborg.org", "time": "Wed Aug 09 08:23:55 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@neptun.ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Sep 25 09:01:49 2006 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: add missing return statement in modpost.c:secref_whitelist()\n\nNoticed by: Magnus Damm \u003cmagnus@valinux.co.jp\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg \u003csam@ravnborg.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9e157a5aa899f1ef73780e4755b57ddeb9225079", "tree": "5e5005a758093735fa02d13856153419b37470cb", "parents": [ "a07f6033ca135a94a69c6874d028f01338e2535c" ], "author": { "name": "Magnus Damm", "email": "magnus@valinux.co.jp", "time": "Tue Aug 08 17:32:11 2006 +0900" }, "committer": { "name": "Sam Ravnborg", "email": "sam@neptun.ravnborg.org", "time": "Mon Sep 25 09:01:49 2006 +0200" }, "message": "kbuild: ignore references from \".pci_fixup\" to \".init.text\"\n\nThe modpost code is extended to ignore references\nfrom \".pci_fixup\" to \".init.text\".\n\nSigned-off-by: Magnus Damm \u003cmagnus@valinux.co.jp\u003e\n" } ], "next": "c96fca213737a5b4bc569e1d9a0ef6adeff661e9" }