Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] scripts/kallsyms: shrink table before sorting it

[Olof Johansson]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently, build_initial_tok_table() trims unused symbols, which is
> called after sort_symbol().
>
> It is not efficient to sort the huge table that contains unused entries.
> Shrink the table before sorting it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This started showing warnings on some 32-bit ARM platforms, due to
kallsyms_relative_base changing:

 kallsyms_relative_base:
-       PTR     _text - 0
+       PTR     _text - 0xfffffffffffffe20

The assembler started complaining:

.tmp_kallsyms1.S: Assembler messages:
.tmp_kallsyms1.S:15315: Warning: right operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed

Also, I clearly see different output with this patch reverted and
applied; I would expect no actual difference if it was correct.

Can we please revert this for 5.5 while this is being sorted out?

To reproduce, build for example am200epdkit_defconfig for ARCH=arm. I
see it with GCC 8.2.0, binutils 2.30.0.


Thanks,

-Olof