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Message-ID: <202511040812.DFGedJiy-lkp@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 08:58:20 +0800
From: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [tip:objtool/core 1/1] arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section
 `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.o' being placed
 in section `.text.start.constprop.0'

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git objtool/core
head:   6568f14cb5ae68cd6c612604ca0c89301cf3a0d0
commit: 6568f14cb5ae68cd6c612604ca0c89301cf3a0d0 [1/1] vmlinux.lds: Exclude .text.startup and .text.exit from TEXT_MAIN
config: arm-allyesconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251104/202511040812.DFGedJiy-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 15.1.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251104/202511040812.DFGedJiy-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511040812.DFGedJiy-lkp@intel.com/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0'
>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxk_hard.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0'
>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start' from `drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0910.o' being placed in section `.text.start'
>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-sx8.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0'
   arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/spi/spi-amlogic-spifc-a4.o: in function `aml_sfc_set_bus_width':
   spi-amlogic-spifc-a4.c:(.text.aml_sfc_set_bus_width+0x8c): undefined reference to `__ffsdi2'
   arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: spi-amlogic-spifc-a4.c:(.text.aml_sfc_set_bus_width+0xac): undefined reference to `__ffsdi2'
   arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: spi-amlogic-spifc-a4.c:(.text.aml_sfc_set_bus_width+0xcc): undefined reference to `__ffsdi2'

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