Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections from bzImage

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:08:45PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Discarding the sections that are unused in the compressed kernel saves
> > about 10 KiB on 32-bit and 6 KiB on 64-bit, mostly from .eh_frame.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index 508cfa6828c5..12a20603d92e 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -73,4 +73,9 @@ SECTIONS
> >  #endif
> >  	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);	/* keep ZO size page aligned */
> >  	_end = .;
> > +
> > +	/* Discard all remaining sections */
> > +	/DISCARD/ : {
> > +		*(*)
> > +	}
> >  }
> > -- 
> > 2.24.1
> > 
> 
> This patch breaks linking with ld.lld:
> 
> $ make -j$(nproc) -s CC=clang LD=ld.lld O=out.x86_64 distclean defconfig bzImage
> ld.lld: error: discarding .shstrtab section is not allowed

Well, why is it not allowed? And why isn't the GNU linker complaining?

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    Boris.

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