kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
Enabling -ffunction-sections modified the generic linker script to
pull .text.* sections into regular TEXT_TEXT section, conflicting
with some architectures. Revert that change and require archs that
enable the option to ensure they have no conflicting section names,
and do the appropriate merging.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes: b67067f1176d ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 3f948c4..48d1e76 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -478,7 +478,9 @@
This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
- output sections.
+ output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
+ sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
+ is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
bool
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index ad9d8f9..48dd44f3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -198,9 +198,9 @@
/*
* .data section
- * -fdata-sections generates .data.identifier which needs to be pulled in
- * with .data, but don't want to pull in .data..stuff which has its own
- * requirements. Same for bss.
+ * LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option enables -fdata-sections generates
+ * .data.identifier which needs to be pulled in with .data, but don't want to
+ * pull in .data..stuff which has its own requirements. Same for bss.
*/
#define DATA_DATA \
*(.data .data.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*) \
@@ -434,10 +434,15 @@
}
/* .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
- * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map */
+ * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
+ * LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option enables -ffunction-sections generates
+ * .text.identifier which needs to be pulled in with .text , but some
+ * architectures define .text.foo which is not intended to be pulled in here.
+ * Those enabling LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION must ensure they don't have
+ * conflicting section names, and must pull in .text.[0-9a-zA-Z_]* */
#define TEXT_TEXT \
ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
- *(.text.hot .text .text.fixup .text.unlikely .text.*) \
+ *(.text.hot .text .text.fixup .text.unlikely) \
*(.ref.text) \
MEM_KEEP(init.text) \
MEM_KEEP(exit.text) \
