Re: [PATCH v3 mips-next 0/7] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S sections fixes & cleanup

[Alexander Lobakin]

> 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 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
> 
> 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

Well, GNU fails to build VDSO with this patch... Sorry, sending
v4 now.

>   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
> 
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                 |  1 +
>  arch/mips/include/asm/asm.h       | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |  6 +++---
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.30.0

Al