[Xen-devel] Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: Xen: WARNING: Absolute relocations present

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:33:08AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>>     
>>>> <--  snip  -->
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>   RELOCS  arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
>>>> WARNING: Absolute relocations present
>>>> Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
>>>> c0101f80 020c6501   R_386_32 00000000  xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc
>>>> c0101f9a 0221ea01   R_386_32 00000000  xen_save_fl_direct_reloc
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> <--  snip  -->
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Hm.  Those are false alarms.  I guess I could do something to hide them, 
>>> but
>>> there's nothing inherently wrong with correctly used abs symbols.  Is 
>>> there
>>> someway to whitelist them?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes.  Just add them to arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c safe_abs_syms.
>>   
>
> OK, how's this?
>
> Subject: xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
>...

Thanks, works for me.

cu
Adrian

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