On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:39 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:24 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > On Jan 24, 2020, at 10:18 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > GCC 10 changed the default to -fno-common, which leads to
> > >
> > >  LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> > > ld: arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `__force_order'; arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr_64.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:119: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1
> > >
> > > Since __force_order is already provided in pgtable_64.c, there is no
> > > need to declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c.
> >
> > Why does anything actually define that variable?  Surely any actual references are just an outright bug.  Is it needed for LTO?
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> It is needed by GCC 10 without LTO.
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This updated patch fixed a typo in Subject: "care" -> "declare".


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H.J.