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.
These sections should be empty for the kernel build so discard them for
both PPC64 and PPC32.
[1]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d7ad24e8726ba4c45c9e67be08223a146a837ce
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au>
---
v2: Discard instead of keep. Alan said "[discarding] can be a recipe for
finding linker bugs", so lets go with that.
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 2c93a420f456..af0f81df8bb9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ SECTIONS
DATA_DATA
*(.data.rel*)
*(.toc1)
- *(.branch_lt)
}
.opd : AT(ADDR(.opd) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
@@ -388,6 +387,7 @@ SECTIONS
*(.hash .gnu.hash)
*(.interp)
*(.dynstr)
+ *(.branch_lt)
#ifndef CONFIG_PPC32
*(.dynsym)
#endif
--
2.19.1
