From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the modules tree
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:19:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNARvuaULBJ_Y-n6x6d6uzmr2jaSG-TjmGxrFLJvR7+u9gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAQn8BX9H577Mfp8WMzzaZZ=oZdEti1Lx2XptZY8aHmzuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 5:37 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 5:06 PM Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > +++ Stephen Rothwell [10/02/21 08:50 +1100]:
> > >Hi Jessica,
> > >
> > >On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 16:16:20 +0100 Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hmm, these errors don't look like it's related to that particular commit. I was
> > >
> > >I found this commit by bisection and then tested by reverting it.
> > >
> > >Before this commit, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS would not be set in the
> > >allyesconfig build because CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS was set. After this
> > >commit, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS will be set in the allyesconfig build.
> >
> > Ah, that makes sense then. I would get the error on powerpc whenever
> > CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS was enabled.
> >
> > >> able to reproduce these weird autoksym errors even without any modules-next
> > >> patches applied, and on a clean v5.11-rc7 tree. To reproduce it,
> > >> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS needs to be enabled. I guess that's why we run into
> > >> these errors with allyesconfig. I used a gcc-7 ppc64le cross compiler and got
> > >> the same compiler warnings. It seems to not compile on powerpc properly because
> > >> it looks like some symbols have an extra dot "." prefix, for example in
> > >> kthread.o:
> > >>
> > >> 168: 0000000000000318 24 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 6 kthread_create_worker
> > >> 169: 0000000000001d90 104 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 .kthread_create_worker
> > >> 170: 0000000000000330 24 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 6 kthread_create_worker_on_cpu
> > >> 171: 0000000000001e00 88 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 .kthread_create_worker_on_cpu
> > >> 172: 0000000000000348 24 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 6 kthread_queue_work
> > >> 173: 0000000000001e60 228 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 .kthread_queue_work
> > >>
> > >> So I suppose this dot prefix is specific to powerpc. From the ppc64 elf abi docs:
> > >>
> > >> Symbol names with a dot (.) prefix are reserved for holding entry point
> > >> addresses. The value of a symbol named ".FN", if it exists, is the entry point
> > >> of the function "FN".
> > >>
> > >> I guess the presence of the extra dot symbols is confusing
> > >> scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh, so we get the dot symbols in autoksyms.h, which the
> > >> preprocessor doesn't like. I am wondering how this was never caught until now
> > >> and also now curious if this feature was ever functional on powerpc..
> > >
> > >Which feature?
> >
> > Sorry, by "feature" I meant CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS. This config
> > option was introduced around v4.7. If simply enabling it produces
> > these compilation errors I was wondering if it ever built properly on
> > powerpc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jessica
>
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> I think the following will fix the issue,
> but modpost needs fixing too.
>
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
> index 16c0b2ddaa4c..996a7109167b 100755
> --- a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
> +++ b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ sed 's/ko$/mod/' $modlist |
> xargs -n1 sed -n -e '2{s/ /\n/g;/^$/!p;}' -- |
> cat - "$ksym_wl" |
> sort -u |
> -sed -e 's/\(.*\)/#define __KSYM_\1 1/' >> "$output_file"
> +sed -e 's/^\.\{,1\}\(.*\)/#define __KSYM_\1 1/' >> "$output_file"
>
> # Special case for modversions (see modpost.c)
> if [ -n "$CONFIG_MODVERSIONS" ]; then
> m
After some more tests, I noticed the code above was not correct.
I still saw a lot of modpost errors.
ERROR: modpost: "_mcount" [arch/powerpc/oprofile/oprofile.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "._mcount" [arch/powerpc/oprofile/oprofile.ko] undefined!
I just posted a patch, which fixes the error as far as I tested.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/20210211061416.3747231-1-masahiroy@kernel.org/
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-11 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 10:08 linux-next: build failure after merge of the modules tree Stephen Rothwell
2021-02-09 15:16 ` Jessica Yu
2021-02-09 16:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 21:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-02-10 8:06 ` Jessica Yu
2021-02-10 8:37 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-11 6:19 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2021-02-10 12:21 ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-02-10 16:16 ` Jessica Yu
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