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ld warning, allocated section not in segment

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Nov 14 12:28:00 GMT 2006 
Hi Vivek,

>> ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: warning: allocated section `.smp_altinstr_replacement' 
>> not in segment

> Does that mean that this is an undesired behaviour, hence a bug and has
> been fixed in latest binutils sources?

No.  It means that the linker has found something that *might* indicate 
that there is a problem.  It is only a warning because the feature 
detected by the linker might be something that you have intentionally 
put together.

> First of all I don't even understand
> what does it mean?

It means that the linker has found a loadable section in the output file 
which has not been assigned to a segment.  This is a problem because the 
run time loader program works in terms of segments.  It loads them into 
memory before starting the application.  So if the application has a 
section which needs to be loaded but which is not contained within a 
segment, then it is probable that the application will not work.

So in your case the .smp_altinstr_replacement section is not being 
associated with a segment.  (Are you using a custom linker script ?  If 
so then the problem might be that you need to update the script to 
specify which segment should hold the .smp_altinstr_replacement section).

Cheers
   Nick
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