Re: "Inconsistent kallsyms data" error

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Sat Jul 07 2012 - 00:49:38 EST


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Paulo Marques <pmarques@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

>
> There was a recent thread from David Brown on the arm linux mailing list
> ("ARM: two possible fixes for the KALLSYMS build problem"). He tracked
> down the problem to having empty per_cpu sections on a non-smp build.

Actually rmk diagnosed it as the empty per_cpu sections. See it here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=133267456809502&w=2

Paul.
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> The alignment of these sections made the symbols jump around and change
> from one build to the next. This particular problem might be ARM
> specific, though.
>
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