Re: arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `__cpuidle_method_of_table' from `arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.o' being placed in section `__cpuidle_method_of_table'

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu May 06 2021 - 15:10:05 EST


+ folks from commit 449e056c76cc ("ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops
structure to be used for DT")

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:05 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:11 PM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Kees,
> >
> > FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> >
> > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> > head: 65ec0a7d24913b146cd1500d759b8c340319d55e
> > commit: 5a17850e251a55bba6d65aefbfeacfa9888cd2cd arm/build: Warn on orphan section placement
> > date: 8 months ago
> > config: arm-randconfig-r024-20210501 (attached as .config)
> > compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0
> > reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> > wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> > chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> > # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a17850e251a55bba6d65aefbfeacfa9888cd2cd
> > git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > git fetch --no-tags linus master
> > git checkout 5a17850e251a55bba6d65aefbfeacfa9888cd2cd
> > # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> > COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross W=1 ARCH=arm
> >
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >
> > >> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `__cpuidle_method_of_table' from `arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.o' being placed in section `__cpuidle_method_of_table'
> > >> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `__cpuidle_method_of_table' from `arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.o' being placed in section `__cpuidle_method_of_table'
> > >> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `__cpuidle_method_of_table' from `arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.o' being placed in section `__cpuidle_method_of_table'
>
> Filed: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1372 (though
> this isn't specific to clang).
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers