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Message-Id: <20181104135433.88734-11-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun,  4 Nov 2018 08:54:31 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 11/13] powerpc/boot: Ensure _zimage_start is a weak symbol

From: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>

[ Upstream commit ee9d21b3b3583712029a0db65a4b7c081d08d3b3 ]

When building with clang crt0's _zimage_start is not marked weak, which
breaks the build when linking the kernel image:

 $ objdump -t arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.o |grep _zimage_start$
 0000000000000058 g       .text  0000000000000000 _zimage_start

 ld: arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper.a(crt0.o): in function '_zimage_start':
 (.text+0x58): multiple definition of '_zimage_start';
 arch/powerpc/boot/pseries-head.o:(.text+0x0): first defined here

Clang requires the .weak directive to appear after the symbol is
declared. The binutils manual says:

 This directive sets the weak attribute on the comma separated list of
 symbol names. If the symbols do not already exist, they will be
 created.

So it appears this is different with clang. The only reference I could
see for this was an OpenBSD mailing list post[1].

Changing it to be after the declaration fixes building with Clang, and
still works with GCC.

 $ objdump -t arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.o |grep _zimage_start$
 0000000000000058  w      .text	0000000000000000 _zimage_start

Reported to clang as https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38921

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fa.openbsd.tech/PAgKKen2YCY

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
index 14de4f8778a7..8539ac93b0de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
@@ -47,8 +47,10 @@ p_end:		.long	_end
 p_pstack:	.long	_platform_stack_top
 #endif
 
-	.weak	_zimage_start
 	.globl	_zimage_start
+	/* Clang appears to require the .weak directive to be after the symbol
+	 * is defined. See https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38921  */
+	.weak	_zimage_start
 _zimage_start:
 	.globl	_zimage_start_lib
 _zimage_start_lib:
-- 
2.17.1