83a092cf95f28: powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:03:46 +0200
Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> I am building my kernel (ppc32) with both
> CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y and CONFIG_UBSAN=y. This leads
> to ~316428 warnings such as:
> 
> + powerpc-linux-gnu-ld -EB -m elf32ppc -Bstatic --orphan-handling=warn
> --build-id --gc-sections -X -o .tmp_vmlinux1 -T
> ./arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds --who
> le-archive built-in.a --no-whole-archive --start-group lib/lib.a --end-group
> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data393'
> from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data393'.
> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data394'
> from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data394'.
> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data395'
> from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data395'.
> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data396'
> from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data396'.
> ...
> 
> What would you recommend to reduce the number of warnings produced ? I
> tried `--warn-once` but that only affect undefined symbols.

I'm not sure if the linker can be quietened. You could try putting
*(.data..Lubsan_data*) into the .data section in
powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

Thanks,
Nick