Problems with commit 'kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table' (in mmotm)

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi,

I see runtime problems with the current mmotm branch. All qemu mips targets
(32 and 64 bit, big and little endian) are stuck in boot after this commit.

Bisect points to commit d13682e4d9d2 ("kallsyms: add support for relative offsets
in kallsyms address table". Disabling CONFIG_KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE fixes the problem,
ie I can boot the image with qemu.

Bisect log is attached.

Playing with the problem, I found the following:

1) The problem is only seen with a toolchain using binutils 2.22, but not
   with a toolchain using binutils 2.25. The compiler configuration may be
   different for both toolchains.
2) Message "kallsyms failure: absolute symbol value 0xffffffff807afd14 out of range
   in relative mode" (twice) when using the toolchain with binutils 2.22.
   This does not cause the build to fail, though.
3) kallsyms_sym_address() parameter variable type is "int". In the calling code,
   the variable type used is "unsigned long". That has no impact on the problem,
   though.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down the problem.

Thanks,
Guenter

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# good: [afd2ff9b7e1b367172f18ba7f693dfb62bdcb2dc] Linux 4.4
git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v4.4'
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# bad: [1b06048b37e888edb609e1509070ec0c6580eedd] kallsyms-add-support-for-relative-offsets-in-kallsyms-address-table-fix
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# good: [d94a9840c248207040d62ca0f380943db9423418] proc: fix missing reference of mm
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# bad: [d13682e4d9d2ad8220354b5e1a2bd6623e1f2e38] kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
git bisect bad d13682e4d9d2ad8220354b5e1a2bd6623e1f2e38
# first bad commit: [d13682e4d9d2ad8220354b5e1a2bd6623e1f2e38] kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table