Re: [PATCH] arm: vdso: pass --be8 to linker if necessary

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:20 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey Masahiro,
>
> I'm not sure exactly. I did just notice another place --be8 is being added:

That is not my question.

I just asked about your commit log:
"big-endian ARM was relying on gcc to translate
its -mbe8 option into ld's --be8 option"

I grepped '-mbe8', but I did not see it anywhere
in the source tree.

So, I just wondered where it came from.


> ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
> KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE   += --be8
> endif
>
> I suppose it's possible that this is kbuild related where one of those
> isn't winding up in the right place. I did see that the commit that
> this patch addresses uses "=" instead of the more usual ":=" or "+="
> for whatever reason.
>
> Jason

Perhaps, the following will be cleaner:

ldflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8) += --be8
ldflags-y += -Bsymbolic --no-undefined -soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
            -z max-page-size=4096 -z common-page-size=4096 \
            -nostdlib -shared \
            $(call ld-option, --hash-style=sysv) \
            $(call ld-option, --build-id) \
            -T


I think this fix-up should be applied by Russell.
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada