From: Jes Sorensen Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:13:22 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [IA64] Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list in gate.lds X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3283a67d8618c9a292eced23e8753ab64adc6dba;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git [IA64] Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list in gate.lds Add __mca_table to the DISCARD list for the gate.lds linker script to avoid broken linker references when linking the final vmlinux file. Also add comment to include/asm-ia64/asmmacros.h to avoid anyone else hitting this problem in the future. Credits to James Bottomley for spotting the DISCARD list in gate.lds.S Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/gate.lds.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/gate.lds.S index e1e4aba9ecd0..7c99e6ec3daf 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/gate.lds.S +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/gate.lds.S @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.dynbss) *(.bss .bss.* .gnu.linkonce.b.*) *(__ex_table) + *(__mca_table) } } diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/asmmacro.h b/include/asm-ia64/asmmacro.h index d4cec32083d8..edf2cebb2969 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/asmmacro.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/asmmacro.h @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ name: /* * Helper macros for accessing user memory. + * + * When adding any new .section/.previous entries here, make sure to + * also add it to the DISCARD section in arch/ia64/kernel/gate.lds.S or + * unpleasant things will happen. */ .section "__ex_table", "a" // declare section & section attributes