Re: [PATCH v4 mips-next 0/7] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S sections fixes & cleanup

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Sat Jan 09 2021 - 07:31:34 EST


On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 12:33:38PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> This series hunts the problems discovered after manual enabling of
> ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN. Notably:
> - adds the missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section affecting VDSO
> placement (marked for stable);
> - properly stops .eh_frame section generation.
>
> Compile and runtime tested on MIPS32R2 CPS board with no issues
> using two different toolkits:
> - Binutils 2.35.1, GCC 10.2.0;
> - LLVM stack 11.0.0.
>
> Since v3 [2]:
> - fix the third patch as GNU stack emits .rel.dyn into VDSO for
> some reason if .cfi_sections is specified.
>
> Since v2 [1]:
> - stop discarding .eh_frame and just prevent it from generating
> (Kees);
> - drop redundant sections assertions (Fangrui);
> - place GOT table in .text instead of asserting as it's not empty
> when building with LLVM (Nathan);
> - catch compound literals in generic definitions when building with
> LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION (Kees);
> - collect two Reviewed-bys (Kees).
>
> Since v1 [0]:
> - catch .got entries too as LLD may produce it (Nathan);
> - check for unwanted sections to be zero-sized instead of
> discarding (Fangrui).
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20210104121729.46981-1-alobakin@xxxxx
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20210106200713.31840-1-alobakin@xxxxx
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20210107115120.281008-1-alobakin@xxxxx
>
> Alexander Lobakin (7):
> MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section
> MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add ".gnu.attributes" to DISCARDS
> MIPS: properly stop .eh_frame generation
> MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: catch bad .rel.dyn at link time
> MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: explicitly declare .got table
> vmlinux.lds.h: catch compound literals into data and BSS
> MIPS: select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN

this breaks my builds:

LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo
GEN modules.builtin
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
mips64-linux-gnu-ld: Unexpected run-time relocations (.rel) detected!


$ mips64-linux-gnu-ld --version
GNU ld version 2.27-3.fc24

$ mips64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
mips64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat Cross 6.1.1-2)

Thomas.

--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]