linux-kernel - Re: powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'.

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Date:   Sat, 11 Nov 2017 19:45:40 +1100
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:     kbuild-all@...org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro'
 from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section
 `.data.rel.ro'.

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:41:49 +0800
kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:

> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head:   1c9dbd4615fd751e5e0b99807a3c7c8612e28e20
> commit: cb87481ee89dbd6609e227afbf64900fb4e5c930 kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured
> date:   3 months ago
> config: powerpc-fsp2_defconfig (attached as .config)
> compiler: powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.2.0-11) 7.2.0
> reproduce:
>         wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>         git checkout cb87481ee89dbd6609e227afbf64900fb4e5c930
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         make.cross ARCH=powerpc 
> 
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> 
> >> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'.
> >> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'.
> >> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'.  

Okay this is not caused by the above patch, it was just hiding it.
This should do the trick I think:
--
powerpc/32: Add .data.rel* sections explicitly

Match powerpc/64 and include .data.rel* input sections in the .data output
section explicitly.

This should solve the warning:

powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.rel.ro' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.data.rel.ro'.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 0494e1566ee2..51e4ec92ade1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ SECTIONS
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 	.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		DATA_DATA
+		*(.data.rel*)
 		*(.sdata)
 		*(.sdata2)
 		*(.got.plt) *(.got)
-- 
2.15.0