Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 4 authors, 2021-01-09

Re: [PATCH v4 mips-next 2/7] MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add ".gnu.attributes" to DISCARDS

From: Nathan Chancellor <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-08 21:13:07
Also in: linux-mips, lkml, stable

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 12:34:53PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
Discard GNU attributes (MIPS FP type, GNU Hash etc.) at link time
as kernel doesn't use it at all.
Solves a dozen of the following ld warnings (one per every file):

mips-alpine-linux-musl-ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.attributes'
from `arch/mips/kernel/head.o' being placed in section
`.gnu.attributes'
mips-alpine-linux-musl-ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.attributes'
from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.gnu.attributes'

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 83e27a181206..16468957cba2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		/* ABI crap starts here */
 		*(.MIPS.abiflags)
 		*(.MIPS.options)
+		*(.gnu.attributes)
 		*(.options)
 		*(.pdr)
 		*(.reginfo)
-- 
2.30.0
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