Re: [PATCH 17/22] arm64: vdso: disable LTO

Sami Tolvanen
2020-06-24T23:40:07Z

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 04:05:48PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 2:52 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:58:57PM -0700, 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Filter out CC_FLAGS_LTO for the vDSO.
> > >
> > > Just curious about this patch (and the following one for x86's vdso),
> > > do you happen to recall specifically what the issues with the vdso's
> > > are?
> >
> > I recall the compiler optimizing away functions at some point, but as
> > LTO is not really needed in the vDSO, it's just easiest to disable it
> > there.
>
> Sounds fishy; with extern linkage then I would think it's not safe to
> eliminate functions. Probably unnecessary for the initial
> implementation, and something we can follow up on, but always good to
> have an answer to the inevitable question "why?" in the commit
> message.

Sure. I can test this again with the current toolchain to see if there
are still problems.

Sami