Re: [main-line]Build warnings on PowerPC system
From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <hidden>
Date: 2025-03-27 16:24:43
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On 27/03/25 8:36 pm, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
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On 3/27/25 7:31 PM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:quoted
On 27/03/25 7:22 pm, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:quoted
On 3/27/25 12:33 AM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:quoted
Greetings!!! I see below build warnings while compiling mainline kernel on IBM Power9 system. Repo Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ Head Commit: f6e0150b2003fb2b9265028a618aa1732b3edc8f Attached is the .config. Machine: IBM Power9 gcc version 11.5.0What is the ld version in your system.Please find the ld version below. GNU ld version 2.35.2-59.el9ah ok that explains. Kindly can you try with this patch and let us know whether this fixes the warning in your setupdiff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper index 1db60fe13802..09ceb5a42d81 100755 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ fi # suppress some warnings in recent ld versions nowarn="-z noexecstack" if ! ld_is_lld; then - if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.39 | ld_version)" ]; then + if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.35 | ld_version)" ]; then nowarn="$nowarn --no-warn-rwx-segments" fi fi
Above change fixes the issue. No warnings observed. Thank you!!
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Regards, Venkat.quoted
Reason for asking is that currently with commit 579aee9fc594a ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") ld version greater than >2.39, this warning is being suppressed. Maddyquoted
Warnings: ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions If you happen to fix this, please add below tag. Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <redacted> Regards, Venkat.