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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/vdso: drop implicit common-page-size linker flag
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:12 AM <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> These are implied by the target architecture and for x86_64 match the
> max-page-size. The default for non-NaCl x86_64 is 0x1000 (4096).
>
> In bfd the common page size is defined as 0x1000 (4096) for non-NaCl
> x86_64 targets:
>
> bfd/elf64-x86-64.c:
> 4998:#define ELF_COMMONPAGESIZE 0x1000
>
> For gold, the common page size is defined as 0x1000 (4096) for non-NaCl
> x86_64 targets:
>
> gold/x86_64.cc:
> 1413: 0x1000, // common_pagesize (overridable by -z common-page-size)
> 1442: 0x1000, // common_pagesize (overridable by -z common-page-size)
>
> (ELF_COMMONPAGESIZE also defaults to ELF_MAXPAGESIZE when not set
> explicitly for a target architecture in bfd/elfxx-target.h, but that's
> not relevant for x86_64).
>
> Because it's implied by the target architecture, it's of questionable
> use to implement in LLD. This patch resolves one of the issues towards
> using LLD to link an x86_64 kernel.

Sure.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

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