From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: Xen: WARNING: Absolute relocations present Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:23:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20070701202347.GY10869@stusta.de> References: <20070628034321.38c9f12b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070628204001.GA6087@stusta.de> <46841EC4.7080805@goop.org> <4687D744.6000103@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4687D744.6000103@goop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andi Kleen , chrisw@sous-sol.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: >> >> >>> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> >>>> <-- snip --> >>>> >>>> ... >>>> RELOCS arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs >>>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present >>>> Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym.Name >>>> c0101f80 020c6501 R_386_32 00000000 xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc >>>> c0101f9a 0221ea01 R_386_32 00000000 xen_save_fl_direct_reloc >>>> ... >>>> >>>> <-- snip --> >>>> >>>> >>> Hm. Those are false alarms. I guess I could do something to hide them, >>> but >>> there's nothing inherently wrong with correctly used abs symbols. Is >>> there >>> someway to whitelist them? >>> >> >> Yes. Just add them to arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c safe_abs_syms. >> > > OK, how's this? > > Subject: xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers >... Thanks, works for me. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed