Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] RISC-V: place .sdata / .srodata / .riscv.attributes

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 27/08/2026 4:40 pm, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
>
> Is dropping orphan-handling-y := from arch/riscv/Makefile the intended
> end of this series? As if I understand correctly with such defintion
> we will miss warning so everything of that will be missed:
>
> cd xen
> riscv64-linux-gnu-ld -T arch/riscv/xen.lds prelink.o
> --orphan-handling=warn -o /tmp/t.elf 2>&1 \
>   | grep 'orphan section'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section
> `.note.GNU-stack' from `prelink.o' being placed in section
> `.note.GNU-stack'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.rela.text'
> from `prelink.o' being placed in section `.rela.dyn'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section
> `.rela.init.text' from `prelink.o' being placed in section `.rela.dyn'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section
> `.rela.data.read_mostly' from `prelink.o' being placed in section
> `.rela.dyn'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section
> `.rela.init.data' from `prelink.o' being placed in section `.rela.dyn'
> /usr/bin/riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section
> `.rela.text.header' from `prelink.o' being placed in section `.rela.dyn' 
>

Orphaned sections are a huge source of bugs.  Right now, only x86 has
any kind of orphan warning, so the `orphan-handling-y :=` is maintaining
the existing behaviour.

Longterm we do want to delete that override, but IMO it should be
follow-on work, rather than being part of this series.

~Andrew