[PATCH v2 2/3] powerpc: Discard dynsym section for !PPC32

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Dec 11 08:50:40 AEDT 2018


On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 04:11, Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:24:28AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com> explains:
> >
> >  > Likely you could discard .interp > and .dynstr too, and .dynsym when
> >  > !CONFIG_PPC32.
> >
> > Discarding of interp and dynstr happened in a previous patch. The dynsym
> > cleanup was a bit less straightforward, so it gets it's own patch.
>
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index 6570209b0671..2c93a420f456 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -266,14 +266,13 @@ SECTIONS
> >       }
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
> >       . = ALIGN(8);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> >       .dynsym : AT(ADDR(.dynsym) - LOAD_OFFSET)
> >       {
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> >               __dynamic_symtab = .;
> > -#endif
> >               *(.dynsym)
> >       }
> > -     .dynstr : AT(ADDR(.dynstr) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynstr) }
>
> So this last line belongs in the previous patch then, right?

Correct. Good catch.


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