On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:21:44AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Objtool seg faults when the gold linker is used with > > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y and CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y. > > > > With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y, the .o file gets passed to the linker before > > being passed to objtool. The gold linker seems to strip unused ELF > > symbols by default, which confuses objtool and causes the seg fault when > > it's trying to generate ORC metadata. > > BTW., if it's still unfixed, could we fix that segfault as well, and turn it > into > a more useful failure message?
Good point. I'll fix up this seg fault, and the other one found/introduced when adding retpoline support. -- Josh
