Bug#808246: Potentially interesting difference in module header symbol order

2015-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:55:16PM -0500, wrote: > I tried various binutils versions, and any version starting from > 2.25.51.20151014-1 seems to be reordering the sections, even though > the arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds file explicitly says to use the > order with .toc at the end. So somehow

Bug#808246: Potentially interesting difference in module header symbol order

2015-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:19:17PM -0500, wrote: > I was looking at the module headers and found this pattern: > > In 4.2.1-2, 4.2.5-1, and 4.2.6-1 the order of the header for fat.ko says: > > 17 .data.rel.ro 01c0 00011418 2**3 > CONT

Bug#808246: Potentially interesting difference in module header symbol order

2015-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
I was looking at the module headers and found this pattern: In 4.2.1-2, 4.2.5-1, and 4.2.6-1 the order of the header for fat.ko says: 17 .data.rel.ro 01c0 00011418 2**3 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA 18 .opd 0af8 000