Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

> This option is not supported by lld:
> 
>     ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
> 
> This has been a no-op in binutils since 2004 (see commit dea514f51da1 in
> that tree). Given that the lowest officially supported of binutils for
> the kernel is 2.20, which was released in 2009, nobody needs this flag
> around so just remove it. Commit 1a381d4a0a9a ("arm64: remove no-op -p
> linker flag") did the same for arm64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>

You may now submit your patch to RMK's patch system:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/


> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> 
> * Collect tags
> 
> * Remove an additional occurence of '-p' in the bootp Makefile, thank
>   you to Stefan for pointing it out
> 
> * Drop patch 2/2, it will be fixed properly in lld: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55505
> 
>  arch/arm/Makefile                 | 2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile      | 2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 --
>  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index 0436002d5091..1d48c8ed5f89 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>  #
>  # Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King
>  
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux	:=-p --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
> +LDFLAGS_vmlinux	:= --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= --be8
>  KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE	+= --be8
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> index 83e1a076a5d6..981a8d03f064 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>  
>  GCOV_PROFILE	:= n
>  
> -LDFLAGS_bootp	:=-p --no-undefined -X \
> +LDFLAGS_bootp	:= --no-undefined -X \
>  		 --defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS) \
>  		 --defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS) -T
>  AFLAGS_initrd.o :=-DINITRD=\"$(INITRD)\"
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index 01bf2585a0fa..ecfa4ca320a7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ endif
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
>  endif
> -# ?
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -p
>  # Report unresolved symbol references
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined
>  # Delete all temporary local symbols
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
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