linux.git/scripts/mod/modpost.h, branch v2.6.17.10

[PATCH] kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel

2006-05-21T19:59:21+00:00

Here is an updated r_info layout fix.  Please apply "check SHT_REL
sections" patch before this.

64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kbuild: check SHT_REL sections

2006-05-21T19:59:21+00:00

I found that modpost can not detect section mismatch on mips and i386.  On
mips64, the modpost (with r_info layout fix) can detect it.  The current
modpst only checks SHT_RELA section but I suppose SHT_REL section should be
checked also.  This patch does not contain r_info layout fix.  I'll post an
updated r_info layout fix on next mail.

Check SHT_REL sections as like as SHT_RELA sections to detect section
mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel"

2006-05-08T20:38:42+00:00

This reverts commit c8d8b837ebe4b4f11e1b0c4a2bdc358c697692ed, which
caused problems for the x86 build. Quoth Sam:

  "It was discussed on mips list but apparently the fix was bogus.  I
   will not have time to look into it so mips can carry this local fix
   until we get a proper fix in mainline."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel

2006-04-30T21:36:48+00:00

64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends

2006-03-03T15:46:04+00:00

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: check for section mismatch during modpost stage

2006-02-19T08:51:20+00:00

Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.

.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.

The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.

Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: use warn()/fatal() consistent in modpost

2006-02-19T08:51:17+00:00

modpost.c provides warn() and fatal() - so use them all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!