On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 10:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:14:22 +1100 > Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weig...@de.ibm.com> > > > > If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first > > function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl > > gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module > > objects. > > > > This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create > > such text sections. However, this has changed with a recent change > > in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its > > assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem. > > > > There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs > > on the sparc64 platform. This patch uses the same method to handle > > those on powerpc as well. > > > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weig...@de.ibm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > > --- > > scripts/recordmcount.pl | 3 ++- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > Steve can we get an ack for this one, to go via powerpc? cheers > > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
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