Re: [PATCH 4.4 22/38] elfcore: fix building with clang

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 6e7b64b9dd6d96537d816ea07ec26b7dedd397b9 upstream.
> 
> kernel/elfcore.c only contains weak symbols, which triggers a bug with
> clang in combination with recordmcount:
> 
>   Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
>   kernel/elfcore.o: failed
> 
> Move the empty stubs into linux/elfcore.h as inline functions.  As only
> two architectures use these, just use the architecture specific Kconfig
> symbols to key off the declaration.

4.4 has this:

config BINFMT_ELF32
        bool
        default y if MIPS32_O32 || MIPS32_N32
                select ELFCORE

in arch/mips. So I believe we'll see problems in that
configuration...?

Best regards,
							Pavel
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