This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3645e98..c337246 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
".pdr",
"__param",
"__ex_table",
+ "__dbe_table",
".fixup",
".smp_locks",
".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */
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