[PATCH] ARM: VDSO: fix regression with toolchains lacking ld.bfd executable
From: Raphaël Poggi <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-16 20:34:20
Hi Nathan, I just tested it right now and it works, you can add my: Tested-by: Rapha?l Poggi <redacted> 2015-07-15 6:34 GMT+02:00 Nathan Lynch [off-list ref]:
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The Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05 toolchain (gcc 4.8.3, binutils 2.24.51) has a GCC which implements -fuse-ld, and it doesn't include the gold linker, but it lacks an ld.bfd executable in its installation. This means that passing -fuse-ld=bfd fails with: VDSO arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld' Arguably this is a deficiency in the toolchain, but I suspect it's commonly used enough that it's worth accommodating: just use cc-ldoption (to cause a link attempt) instead of cc-option to test whether we can use -fuse-ld. So -fuse-ld=bfd won't be used with this toolchain, but the build will rightly succeed, just as it does for toolchains which don't implement -fuse-ld (and don't use gold as the default linker). Note: this will change the failure mode for a corner case I was trying to handle in d2b30cd4b722, where the toolchain defaults to the gold linker and the BFD linker is not found in PATH, from: VDSO arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld' i.e. the BFD linker is not found, to: OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N that is, we fail to prevent gold from being used as the linker, and it produces an object that objcopy can't digest. Reported-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Tested-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Fixes: d2b30cd4b722 ("ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker") Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <redacted> --- arch/arm/vdso/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile index 9d259d94e429..1160434eece0 100644 --- a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096 VDSO_LDFLAGS += -nostdlib -shared VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv) VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--build-id) -VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fuse-ld=bfd) +VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-ldoption, -fuse-ld=bfd) obj-$(CONFIG_VDSO) += vdso.o extra-$(CONFIG_VDSO) += vdso.lds --2.1.0 _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel