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* [PATCH] arm64 module: remove (NOLOAD)
@ 2022-02-18  8:12 Fangrui Song
  2022-02-18  8:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel
  2022-02-25 15:50 ` Will Deacon
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fangrui Song @ 2022-02-18  8:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Ard Biesheuvel, linux-arm-kernel
  Cc: Nathan Chancellor, linux-kernel, llvm, Fangrui Song

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
index a11ccadd47d2..094701ec5500 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 SECTIONS {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
-	.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.init.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.text.ftrace_trampoline 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+	.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+	.init.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+	.text.ftrace_trampoline 0 : { BYTE(0) }
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
-- 
2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog


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2022-02-18  8:50   ` Fangrui Song
2022-02-18 16:34     ` Nathan Chancellor
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