powerpc/32: Include .branch_lt in data section

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Feb 9 00:02:51 AEDT 2019


On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 03:02:18 UTC, Joel Stanley wrote:
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/98ecc6768e8fdba95da1fc1efa0ef2d7

cheers


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