linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"

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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:17:41 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:13 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit d79a27195a33f4b5e591de5536799ad874ea6cf5.
>
> According to the commit description, this ld-option test was added for
> the gold linker at that time.
>
> Commit 75959d44f9dc ("kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected") gave
> up the gold linker support after all.
>
> I tested the BFD linker from binutils 2.23 and LLD from LLVM 11.0.0.
> Both of them support the -X option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
>
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 49dcae886c48..d7c85ec79000 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ KBUILD_LDFLAGS    += $(call ld-option,--no-warn-rwx-segments)
>  endif
>
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS),y)
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux        += $(call ld-option, -X,)
> +LDFLAGS_vmlinux        += -X
>  endif
>
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELR),y)
> --
> 2.34.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers