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authorNathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>2015-06-03 00:41:15 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-06-06 10:37:12 +0100
commitd2b30cd4b7223a96e606dfc8120626f66d81e091 (patch)
tree7b2d8f0c1be0a5425587d532fd46a4178aeb4e15 /arch/arm
parentd33ce23b2160d26b27a47092da5d556b5b11a12a (diff)
ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
When using a toolchain with gold as the default linker, the VDSO build fails: VDSO arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw HOSTCC arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge MUNGE arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.dbg OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N For whatever reason, ld.gold is omitting an exidx program header that ld.bfd emits, and even when I work around that, I don't get a working VDSO. For now, instead of supporting gold (which will fail to link the kernel anyway since it does not implement --pic-veneer), direct the compiler to use the traditional bfd linker. This is accomplished by using -fuse-ld, which is implemented in GCC 4.8 and later. Note: one limitation of this is that if the toolchain is configured to use gold by default, and the bfd linker is not in $PATH, the VDSO build will fail: VDSO arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld' This will happen if CROSS_COMPILE begins with a path such as /opt/bin/arm-linux-gnu- but /opt/bin is not in $PATH. This is considered an acceptable corner-case limitation and is easily worked around. Additonal note: we use cc-option instead of cc-ldoption so that -fuse-ld=bfd is placed in the command line if the compiler recognizes the option. Using cc-ldoption results in an attempt to link, which fails in the situation just described, causing -fuse-ld=bfd to be omitted and gold to be used for the VDSO link, which is what we're trying to prevent. Reported-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/vdso/Makefile1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
index 89182ad44ee8..9d259d94e429 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096
VDSO_LDFLAGS += -nostdlib -shared
VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--build-id)
+VDSO_LDFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fuse-ld=bfd)
obj-$(CONFIG_VDSO) += vdso.o
extra-$(CONFIG_VDSO) += vdso.lds