Re: [PATCH] Missing symbol prefix on vmlinux.lds.h

From: Yoshinori Sato
Date: Wed Jul 30 2008 - 23:20:35 EST


At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:06:59 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:26:24 -0400 Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Sorry.
> >
> > I got error ARCH=h8300.
> > init/main.c:781: undefined reference to `___early_initcall_end'
> >
> > Same problem have
> > __start___bug_table
> > __stop___bug_table
> > __tracedata_start
> > __tracedata_end
> > __per_cpu_start
> > __per_cpu_end
> >
> > If define symbol in vmlinux.lds, Use VMLINUX_SYMBOL macro.
> > VMLINUX_SYMBOL is add prefix charactor.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 14 +++++++-------
> > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > index 6d88a92..04cae96 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> > @@ -333,9 +333,9 @@
> > #define BUG_TABLE \
> > . = ALIGN(8); \
> > __bug_table : AT(ADDR(__bug_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
> > - __start___bug_table = .; \
> > + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___bug_table) = .; \
> > *(__bug_table) \
> > - __stop___bug_table = .; \
> > + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___bug_table) = .; \
> > }
> > #else
> > #define BUG_TABLE
>
> Strange. The code you're fixing there was added by
>
> commit 7664c5a1da4711bb6383117f51b94c8dc8f3f1cd
> Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:19 2006 -0800
>
> [PATCH] Generic BUG implementation
>
>
> over a year ago. I doubt if h8300 has been broken for that long, so
> something else must have triggered this failure.
>
> Do you know what it was?

I don't know.
Check it.

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Yoshinori Sato
<ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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