On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:32:03PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:

Hi all,

The latest GNU assembler (binutils-2.36.1) is removing unused section symbols
like Clang [1].  So linux-5.10.15 can't be built with binutils-2.36.1 now.  It
has been reported as https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211693.

I can confirm this commit fixes the issue.  It should be cherry-picked into
stable branches, so the following stable releases will be able to built with
latest GNU toolchain.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-December/114671.html

At last, happy new lunar year guys :).

On 2020-12-16 13:49 +0000, tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

quoted

The following commit has been merged into the objtool/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     44f6a7c0755d8dd453c70557e11687bb080a6f21

Now queued up for 5.10.y.

If people want it in older kernels, please provide a working backport.

thanks,

greg k-h