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From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Handle .text.{hot,unlikely}.* in linker script
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:57:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210104205732.GA1398664@ubuntu-m3-large-x86> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+icZUVe4AJoLWMqS3MEx700jcwDaJhw78tUgg8iD0dJvEmmYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 09:55:20PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:49 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Commit eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input
> > sections") added ".text.unlikely.*" and ".text.hot.*" due to an LLVM
> > change [1].
> >
> > After another LLVM change [2], these sections are seen in some PowerPC
> > builds, where there is a orphan section warning then build failure:
> >
> 
> Looks like you forgot to add your references/links to [1] and [2].

Indeed, thank you for pointing that out! v2 coming shortly.

> Might be good to mention...?
> 
> With CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN=y is enabled

Since this symbol is not user selectable, I do not really think it is
worth mentioning, plus PowerPC has had this enabled for a while :)

Cheers,
Nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-04 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04 20:48 [PATCH] powerpc: Handle .text.{hot,unlikely}.* in linker script Nathan Chancellor
2021-01-04 20:55 ` Sedat Dilek
2021-01-04 20:57   ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2021-01-04 20:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Nathan Chancellor
2021-01-15 12:23   ` Michael Ellerman
2021-01-16 18:44   ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-01-16 18:52     ` Nathan Chancellor

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