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SubjectRe: [PATCH] riscv module: remove (NOLOAD)
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 12:26:11AM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
> inappropriate for .plt, .got, and .got.plt sections which are always
> SHT_PROGBITS.
>
> In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
> and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
> customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
> mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.
>
> [1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
> section should be marked as not loadable" on
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
> outdated for ELF.

Thank you for the patch! As mentioned on the arm64 patch, this needs
your Signed-off-by tag. With that provided:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

This needs to go to stable so that older trees with a newer toolchain do
not warn.

> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> index 4254ff2ff049..1075beae1ac6 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
> /* Copyright (C) 2017 Andes Technology Corporation */
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SECTIONS
> SECTIONS {
> - .plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> - .got (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> - .got.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> + .plt : { BYTE(0) }
> + .got : { BYTE(0) }
> + .got.plt : { BYTE(0) }
> }
> #endif
> --
> 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog
>
>

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