linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA

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Message-ID: <20230512-garage-slacked-d16268c0726e@spud>
Date:   Fri, 12 May 2023 16:16:31 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 02:58:49PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:12:11PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index e5f9f4677bbf..492dd4b8f3d6 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ SECTIONS
> >  	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
> >  
> >  	.init.pi : {
> > -		*(.init.pi*)
> > +		KEEP(*(.init.pi*))
> >  	}
> 
> This section no longer exists in v6.4-rc1, it is now:
> 	/* Those sections result from the compilation of kernel/pi/string.c */
> 	.init.pidata : {
> 		*(.init.srodata.cst8*)
> 		*(.init__bug_table*)
> 		*(.init.sdata*)
> 	}

Ahh, I see what has happened. This series was made on top of
riscv/fixes, but none of the patches are marked as a fix, leading to the
automation testing this as new content.

Sorry for the noise on this patch.

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