Re: RTL9300 (mips) fails to boot with commit d4a7f2510ff4 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output section")

[Chris Packham]

On 22/11/24 14:58, Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi Rong,
>
> I was just trying some of my in-flight changes against linux-next and 
> found that my RTL9300* based board no longer boots (nothing on the 
> serial console after U-Boot hands off to the kernel).
>
> A bisect between Linus's tree and linux-next/master points to commit 
> d4a7f2510ff4 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output 
> section"). A build on d4a7f2510ff4^ boots successfully. That series is 
> well beyond my area of knowledge, there may be something that the MIPS 
> SoCs are doing (or not doing) that is being affected by the sections 
> moving.

Based on the sparc change that accompanied this commit the following 
does seem to restore working order for me:

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d575f945d422..e90b0f68290c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ SECTIONS
        _text = .;      /* Text and read-only data */
        _stext = .;
        .text : {
+               /* Match text section symbols in head.S first */
+               *head.o(.text)
                TEXT_TEXT
                SCHED_TEXT
                LOCK_TEXT

No idea if that's appropriate