ARM: 8514/1: remove duplicate definitions of __vectors_start and __stubs_start
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:04:47 +0000 (10:04 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:33:39 +0000 (15:33 +0000)
Commit b9b32bf70f2f ("ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs")
introduced new global definitions of __vectors_start and __stubs_start,
and changed the existing ones to have internal linkage only. However, these
symbols are still visible to kallsyms, and due to the way the .vectors and
.stubs sections are emitted at the base of the VMA space, these duplicate
definitions have conflicting values.

  $ nm -n vmlinux |grep -E __vectors|__stubs
  00000000 t __vectors_start
  00001000 t __stubs_start
  c0e77000 T __vectors_start
  c0e77020 T __stubs_start

This is completely harmless by itself, since the wrong values are local
symbols that cannot be referenced by other object files directly. However,
since these symbols are also listed in the kallsyms symbol table in some
cases (i.e., CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y and CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL=y), having these
conflicting values can be confusing. So either remove them, or make them
strictly local.

Acked-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S

index 3ce377f7251f3429668c2e2b563fcd8062c991ae..788e40c1254f65dfd1d942497e163f88ce40f2ec 100644 (file)
@@ -1064,7 +1064,6 @@ ENDPROC(vector_\name)
        .endm
 
        .section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
-__stubs_start:
        @ This must be the first word
        .word   vector_swi
 
@@ -1206,10 +1205,10 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
        .equ    vector_fiq_offset, vector_fiq
 
        .section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
-__vectors_start:
+.L__vectors_start:
        W(b)    vector_rst
        W(b)    vector_und
-       W(ldr)  pc, __vectors_start + 0x1000
+       W(ldr)  pc, .L__vectors_start + 0x1000
        W(b)    vector_pabt
        W(b)    vector_dabt
        W(b)    vector_addrexcptn