[tip:irq/urgent] BUILD REGRESSION 9f7488f24c7571d349d938061e0ede7a39b65d6b

[Alexandre Ghiti]

On 8/7/25 11:00, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07 2025 at 15:10, kernel test robot wrote:
>> tree/branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git irq/urgent
>> branch HEAD: 9f7488f24c7571d349d938061e0ede7a39b65d6b  irqchip/mvebu-gicp: Use resource_size() for ioremap()
>>
>> Error/Warning (recently discovered and may have been fixed):
>>
>>      https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202508070607.QKVa8DiU-lkp@intel.com
>>
>>      ERROR: modpost: __ex_table+0x1584 references non-executable section '.rodata.__func__.103779'
>>
>> Error/Warning ids grouped by kconfigs:
>>
>> recent_errors
>> `-- riscv-randconfig-002-20250807
>>      `-- ERROR:__ex_table-references-non-executable-section-.rodata.__func__.
> This has nothing to do with the above commit. That's just a new one
> of the same type as the ones which existed before:
>
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: xp_fill_cb+0x46 (section: .text.xp_fill_cb) -> .L62 (section: .init.text)
> ...
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: 0x19e4 (section: __ex_table) -> .LASF400 (section: .debug_str)
>
> There are gazillions of them and that's a purely riscv specific related
> problem.


Yes that's a riscv issue that was already reported by Marco [1] who also 
found the underlying issue [2]. The problem is that we emit too many 
relocations which overflow the number of possible relocations in 32-bit. 
After discussion with some riscv gcc folks, it appears to be caused by 
relaxations which, according to the ABI, require the emission of local 
symbol. We don't have a workaround for now and we'll discuss this issue 
with the ABI authors.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/960240908.630790.1748641210849@privateemail.com/
[2] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/1714337938.319508.1750244108368@privateemail.com/

Sorry for the noise,

Alex


>
> Thanks,
>
>          tglx
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