Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: Xen: WARNING: Absolute relocations present

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sun Jul 01 2007 - 11:43:17 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> <-- snip -->
>>
>> ...
>> RELOCS arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
>> Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym.Name
>> c0101f80 020c6501 R_386_32 00000000 xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc
>> c0101f9a 0221ea01 R_386_32 00000000 xen_save_fl_direct_reloc
>> ...
>>
>> <-- snip -->
>>
>
> Hm. Those are false alarms. I guess I could do something to hide them, but
> there's nothing inherently wrong with correctly used abs symbols. Is there
> someway to whitelist them?

Yes. Just add them to arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c safe_abs_syms.

Eric
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