linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] riscv: vdso: fix section overlapping under some conditions

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Date:   Thu,  3 Nov 2022 01:02:54 +0800
From:   Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] riscv: vdso: fix section overlapping under some conditions

lkp reported a build error, I tried the config and can reproduce
build error as below:

  VDSOLD  arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
ld.lld: error: section .note file range overlaps with .text
>>> .note range is [0x7C8, 0x803]
>>> .text range is [0x800, 0x1993]

ld.lld: error: section .text file range overlaps with .dynamic
>>> .text range is [0x800, 0x1993]
>>> .dynamic range is [0x808, 0x937]

ld.lld: error: section .note virtual address range overlaps with .text
>>> .note range is [0x7C8, 0x803]
>>> .text range is [0x800, 0x1993]

Fix it by setting DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING which will disable branch
tracing for vdso, thus avoid useless _ftrace_annotated_branch section
and _ftrace_branch section. Although we can also fix it by removing
the hardcoded .text begin address, but I think that's another story
and should be put into another patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202210122123.Cc4FPShJ-lkp@intel.com/#r
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
---

Since v1:
 - fix the issue by setting DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING

 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index f2e065671e4d..d6092ff678fd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ vdso-syms += flush_icache
 obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms)) note.o
 
 ccflags-y := -fno-stack-protector
+ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 
 ifneq ($(c-gettimeofday-y),)
   CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o += -fPIC -include $(c-gettimeofday-y)
-- 
2.37.2