Skip to contentSkip to conversation

Patch "openrisc: Add _text symbol to fix ksym build error" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Aug 4, 2017

Subsystems (2)
lore
Share & tools
lore

[email protected]

author maintainer Applied
#0 lore raw

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

openrisc: Add _text symbol to fix ksym build error

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
openrisc-add-_text-symbol-to-fix-ksym-build-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

Quoted 1 line

From foo@baz Fri Aug 4 15:15:51 PDT 2017

From: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:27:57 +0900
Subject: openrisc: Add _text symbol to fix ksym build error

From: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 086cc1c31a0ec075dac02425367c871bb65bc2c9 ]

The build robot reports:

.tmp_kallsyms1.o: In function `kallsyms_relative_base':

Quoted 1 line
Quoted 1 line

(.rodata+0x8a18): undefined reference to `_text'

This is when using 'make alldefconfig'. Adding this _text symbol to mark the start of the kernel as in other architecture fixes this.

---
 arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +2 -0
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ SECTIONS
         /* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */
         . = LOAD_BASE ;
 
+	_text = .;
+
 	/* _s_kernel_ro must be page aligned */
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	_s_kernel_ro = .;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/openrisc-add-_text-symbol-to-fix-ksym-build-error.patch