]> git.itanic.dy.fi Git - linux-stable/commitdiff
vmlinux.lds.h: Fix incomplete .text.exit discards
authorPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:59:59 +0000 (12:59 +0200)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:54:58 +0000 (08:54 +1100)
Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y causes linker errors on ARM:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.ARM.exidx.text.exit':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.fini_array.00100':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

And related errors on NDS32:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.dtors.65435':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

The gcov compiler flags cause certain compiler versions to generate
additional destructor-related sections that are not yet handled by the
linker script, resulting in references between discarded and
non-discarded sections.

Since destructors are not used in the Linux kernel, fix this by
discarding these additional sections.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.h
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

index ae5fdff18406171132817390420dea366281f019..8247bc15addc419d2b6f4bf222d4f37e172ca0a7 100644 (file)
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 #define ARM_DISCARD                                                    \
                *(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)                                 \
                *(.ARM.extab.exit.text)                                 \
+               *(.ARM.exidx.text.exit)                                 \
+               *(.ARM.extab.text.exit)                                 \
                ARM_CPU_DISCARD(*(.ARM.exidx.cpuexit.text))             \
                ARM_CPU_DISCARD(*(.ARM.extab.cpuexit.text))             \
                ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(EXIT_TEXT)                             \
index 7b75ff6e2fceeb407e828c4e171176afc5ae7281..b4d74b1c1e1dc8e1beff9b55bb3adda706df985b 100644 (file)
 
 #define EXIT_DATA                                                      \
        *(.exit.data .exit.data.*)                                      \
-       *(.fini_array)                                                  \
-       *(.dtors)                                                       \
+       *(.fini_array .fini_array.*)                                    \
+       *(.dtors .dtors.*)                                              \
        MEM_DISCARD(exit.data*)                                         \
        MEM_DISCARD(exit.rodata*)