[PATCH] powerpc/32: Include .branch_lt in data section

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Wed Nov 14 14:02:18 AEDT 2018


When building a 32 bit powerpc kernel with Binutils 2.31.1 this warning
is emitted:

 powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.branch_lt' from
 `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.branch_lt'

As of binutils commit 2d7ad24e8726 ("Support PLT16 relocs against local
symbols")[1], 32 bit targets can produce .branch_lt sections in their
output.

Include these symbols in the .data section as the ppc64 kernel does.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d7ad24e8726ba4c45c9e67be08223a146a837ce
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
---
I wasn't sure where this should go or if the ordering matters.
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 434581bcd5b4..6d5fd1b95311 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.sdata2)
 		*(.got.plt) *(.got)
 		*(.plt)
+		*(.branch_lt)
 	}
 #else
 	.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
-- 
2.19.1



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