Re: [PATCH -next] xtensa: Fix fix linker script transformation for .text / .text.fixup

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Apr 08 2015 - 09:08:21 EST


On 04/07/2015 11:14 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
Hi Guenter,

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Commit 779c88c94c34 ("ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup
input section") introduced a new .text.fixup section which is merged
with .text at link time. This causes xtensa builds to fail with lots
of error messages similar to the following.

lib/lib.a(kobject.o): In function `kobject_create':
(.text+0x498): dangerous relocation: l32r: literal placed after use:
(.literal+0x150)

Linker script transformation needs to be updated to detect and handle
the new section.

I've posted a patch for it to the linux-xtensa ML a while ago:
http://lists.linux-xtensa.org/pipermail/linux-xtensa/Week-of-Mon-20150330/001913.html

Fixes: 779c88c94c34 ("ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup
input section")
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/xtensa/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/Makefile b/arch/xtensa/kernel/Makefile
index 18d962a..d3a0f0f 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ AFLAGS_head.o += -mtext-section-literals

sed-y = -e 's/\*(\(\.[a-z]*it\|\.ref\|\)\.text)/*(\1.literal \1.text)/g' \
-e 's/\.text\.unlikely/.literal.unlikely .text.unlikely/g' \
+ -e 's/\*(\(\.text .*\))/*(.literal \1)/g' \

This doesn't handle literals for .text.fixup AFAICT.

It doesn't, but then it wasn't supposed to. .text.fixup is arm specific.

Guenter

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