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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: 陈华才 <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"Peter Jones" <pjones@redhat.com>,
	"Ilias Apalodimas" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	"Heinrich Schuchardt" <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>,
	"AKASHI Takahiro" <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Atish Patra" <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Lennart Poettering" <lennart@poettering.net>,
	"Jeremy Linton" <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] loongarch: avoid orphan input sections
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:44:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a60dc58fe182782fdc8ef834323414232104fb.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGHLans85vpGzY6FbdW0w5DZ0uqT7eEk2yava=udUHY1w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 11:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> But does the ELF psABI for LoongArch describe L_ARCH_NONE as a dynamic
> relocation? .rela.dyn typically only contains relocations that are
> specified as being suitable for runtime relocation.

In Binutils 2.39 the BFD linker often over-estimate the size of .rela.*.
For example if there is only 42 relocations, it may allocate the space
for 47 relocations and fill the unused space in the section with zero. 
Then 5 R_LARCH_NONE will appear.

This has already caused trouble when we reviewed LoongArch glibc port,
but at last the reviewers considered using NONE relocations as a
"padding" acceptable.  So in glibc ld.so will treat R_LARCH_NONE as a
"dynamic" relocation with no real effect.

The issue (or "bug", if we want a more serious term) seems fixed in
Binutils trunk, but I've not rebuilt the entire system with it so I'm
not sure if it's completely fixed.

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-28  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-27  8:38 [PATCH v4 0/9] efi: implement generic compressed boot support Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] efi: name the ARCH-stub.c files uniformly Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] efi/libstub: add some missing EFI prototypes Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] efi/libstub: use EFI provided memcpy/memset routines Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] efi/libstub: move efi_system_table global var into separate object Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] efi/libstub: implement generic EFI zboot Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] arm64: efi: enable generic EFI compressed boot Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-31 22:05   ` Jeremy Linton
2022-09-01  0:48     ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] riscv: " Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] loongarch: avoid orphan input sections Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-27 10:15   ` 陈华才
2022-08-27 13:27     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-28  3:31       ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-28  9:36         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-28  9:44           ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2022-08-29  3:59             ` 陈华才
2022-08-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] loongarch: efi: enable generic EFI compressed boot Ard Biesheuvel
2022-08-28  9:52   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-28 10:57     ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-29  8:13     ` 陈华才

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