Re: [PATCH 5/7] arm64: keep .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement

From: Sami Tolvanen
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 12:49:04 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:58:27AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> So yes please if it's not too much trouble, could you remove
> the "gold" name from the generic patch and put it at the front
> of the series with this arm64 patch.

Sure, I'll do this in v2.

> Possibly then you could also do a 3rd patch to allow arm64 to
> select it if it's working with gcc?

These patches only fix the issues I ran into with clang and gold
when testing on a single device. I feel like more testing would
be needed before enabling this by default for arm64.

Sami