Re: [PATCH v2] arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 10:21, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jan 05 2023, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> > I do not understand why 99cb0d917ffa affected this.
> >
> >
> > I submitted a fix to shoot the error message "discarded section .exit.text"
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230105031306.1455409-1-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> >
> > I do not understand the binutils commit either,
> > but it might have made something good
> > because EXIT_TEXT appears twice, in .exit.text, and /DISCARD/.
>
> I think the issue is that the introdution of a second /DISCARD/
> directive early in script changes the order of evaluation of the other
> /DISCARD/ directive when binutils < 2.36 is used, so that the missing
> RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT started to become relevant.  As long as /DISCARD/
> only appears last, the effect of EXIT_TEXT inside it is always
> overridden by its occurence in the .exit.exit output section directive.
> When another /DISCARD/ occurs early (and binutils < 2.36 is used) the
> effect of EXIT_TEXT inside the second /DISCARD/ (when merged with the
> first) overrides its occurence in the .exit.text directive.  The
> binutils commit changed that because the new /DISCARD/ directive no
> longer affects the order of evaluation of the rest of the directives.
>

Exactly. The binutils change mentions output section merging, which
apparently applies to the /DISCARD/ pseudo section as well.

However, powerpc was also affected by this, and I suggested another
fix in the thread below

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230103014535.GA313835@xxxxxxxxxxxx/