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>
#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) \
#define EXIT_DATA \
*(.exit.data .exit.data.*) \
- *(.fini_array) \
- *(.dtors) \
+ *(.fini_array .fini_array.*) \
+ *(.dtors .dtors.*) \
MEM_DISCARD(exit.data*) \
MEM_DISCARD(exit.rodata*)