Re: [PATCH v3 05/12] LoongArch: Fix EFI linking with -fdata-sections

[Joe Lawrence]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 03:20:24PM +0800, George Guo wrote:
> From: George Guo <guodongtai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When building with func-fdata-sections, the .init.bss section gets split

nit: s/func-fdata-sections/-fdata-sections

> up into a bunch of .init.bss.<var> sections.  Make sure they get linked
> into .init.data.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Kexin Liu <liukexin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kexin Liu <liukexin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: George Guo <guodongtai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 840d944c2f73..dc5fa017db94 100644
> --- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ SECTIONS
>  #endif
>  
>  	.init.bss : {
> -		*(.init.bss)
> +		*(.init.bss .init.bss.*)

Both arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S and
arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S contain a "/* from the EFI stub */"
comment documenting the wildcard.  Might be worth adding for v4.

--
Joe