Re: [PATCH 1/7] ARM: disallow combining XIP and LTO

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:01 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
>> This fails during deflate_xip_data.sh
>>
>>   /home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-objcopy -O binary -R .comment -S  vmlinux arch/arm/boot/xipImage && /bin/bash -c '/git/arm-soc/arch/arm/boot/deflate_xip_data.sh vmlinux arch/arm/boot/xipImage || { rm -f arch/arm/boot/xipImage; false; }'
>> make -f /git/arm-soc/scripts/Makefile.modpost
>> + sym_val __data_loc
>> + sed -n / __data_loc$/{s/ .*$//p;q}
>> + /home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-nm vmlinux
>> /home/arnd/cross-gcc/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/8.0.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/nm terminated with signal 13 [Broken pipe]
>> + local val=ac74c0f4
>> + [ ac74c0f4 ]
>> + echo 2893332724
>> + __data_loc=2893332724
>> + sym_val _edata_loc
>> + /home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-nm vmlinux
>> + sed -n / _edata_loc$/{s/ .*$//p;q}
>> /home/arnd/cross-gcc/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/8.0.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/nm terminated with signal 13 [Broken pipe]
>> + local val=ac7b8744
>> + [ ac7b8744 ]
>> + echo 2893776708
>> + _edata_loc=2893776708
>> + sym_val _xiprom
>> + sed -n / _xiprom$/{s/ .*$//p;q}
>> + /home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-nm vmlinux
>> /home/arnd/cross-gcc/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/8.0.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/nm terminated with signal 13 [Broken pipe]
>>
>> Obviously we want to make the combination work, no idea why it doesn't.
>>
>
> You should move this to config XIP_DEFLATED_DATA instead.

Right, makes sense. I'd still prever nm to not crash, but that would be a small
improvement.

       Arnd