linux-kernel - Re: Build failure in -next due to 'kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination'

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:38:18 +0200
From:   Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@...il.com>,
        Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Build failure in -next due to 'kbuild: allow archs to select link
 dead code/data elimination'

On 2016-09-14 21:48, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:30:04PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> commit 0ae28be83b4d6cd03ef5b481487d042f2b91954e
>> Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
>> Date:   Wed Sep 14 12:24:03 2016 +1000
>>
>>     kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
>>     
>>     Enabling -ffunction-sections modified the generic linker script to
>>     pull .text.* sections into regular TEXT_TEXT section, conflicting
>>     with some architectures. Revert that change and require archs that
>>     enable the option to ensure they have no conflicting section names,
>>     and do the appropriate merging.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
>>
> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Applied to kbuild.git#kbuild.

Thanks,
Michal