Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups (modpost, LTO, MODULE_REL_CRCS, export.h)

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 10:27 PM matoro
<matoro_mailinglist_kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have real hardware for all these arches in my collection.  I use it
> for testing the latest kernel and toolchains on as many of the
> less-popular arches as possible, exactly to find issues like this one :)
>
> Specifically we support all of these in Gentoo.  To double-check this
> wasn't a config issue, I asked another user who also runs sparc to try
> building 5.19 with his config (not copying mine), and he observed the
> same problem.  You can reach us in #gentoo-sparc on Libera.
>
> As for testing, I make all this hardware available on an as-needed
> basis.  So if you can't or don't want to fiddle with qemu, just let me
> know (email or IRC, same username on Libera), and I will get you direct
> access to my hardware.  Thanks!!


I found the root cause.

When I build the sparc kernel, I see a warning

WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "_mcount" [vmlinux] version generation
failed, symbol will not be versioned.


Then, modpost missed to write out the entry.

With the following patch, you will be able to load the module.

I will send a patch with a proper commit log tomorrow. I need some sleep now.



diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 29474cee10b1..337bd36a890a 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2206,13 +2206,11 @@ static void add_exported_symbols(struct buffer
*buf, struct module *mod)
        /* record CRCs for exported symbols */
        buf_printf(buf, "\n");
        list_for_each_entry(sym, &mod->exported_symbols, list) {
-               if (!sym->crc_valid) {
+               if (!sym->crc_valid)
                        warn("EXPORT symbol \"%s\" [%s%s] version
generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.\n"
                             "Is \"%s\" prototyped in
<asm/asm-prototypes.h>?\n",
                             sym->name, mod->name, mod->is_vmlinux ? "" : ".ko",
                             sym->name);
-                       continue;
-               }

                buf_printf(buf, "SYMBOL_CRC(%s, 0x%08x, \"%s\");\n",
                           sym->name, sym->crc, sym->is_gpl_only ? "_gpl" : "");















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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada