On 26 February 2016 at 21:21, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 26 February 2016 20:50:54 Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On ARM, the linker may emit veneers to deal with relative branch >> instructions that appear too far away from their targets. Since the second >> kallsyms pass results in an increase of the kernel size, it may result in >> additional veneers to be emitted, potentially affecting the output of >> kallsyms itself if these symbols are visible to it, and for that reason, >> symbols whose names end in '_veneer' are ignored explicitly. >> >> However, when building Thumb2 kernels, such veneers are named differently >> if they also incur a mode switch, and since they are not filtered by >> kallsyms, they may cause the build to fail. So filter symbols whose names >> end in '_from_arm' or '_from_thumb' as well. >> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> > > > Thanks again for debugging this! > > I have two (randconfig) configurations that ran into this problem, and they > are both with your patch > > Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >
Added to the patch tracker as #8555
