Hi folks The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel.
The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol. This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the __end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data. On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some space between that two areas. Bastian [1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw -- The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal than to kill. -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index f13249b..ef37fc1 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ SECTIONS
} :kernel
_etext = .; /* End of text section */
+ NOTES :kernel :note
+ .dummy : {
+ *(.dummy)
+ } :kernel
+
+ RODATA
+
/* Exception table */
. = ALIGN(16);
__ex_table : {
@@ -33,13 +40,6 @@ SECTIONS
__stop___ex_table = .;
}
- NOTES :kernel :note
- .dummy : {
- *(.dummy)
- } :kernel
-
- RODATA
-
/* Will be freed after init */
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
/* Init code and data */
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