Re: [PATCH v7 15/17] KVM: arm64: disable LTO for the nVHE directory

David Brazdil
2020-11-23T10:22:10Z

Hey Sami,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:07:29PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> We use objcopy to manipulate ELF binaries for the nVHE code,
> which fails with LTO as the compiler produces LLVM bitcode
> instead. Disable LTO for this code to allow objcopy to be used.

We now partially link the nVHE code (generating machine code) before objcopy,
so I think you should be able to drop this patch now. Tried building your
branch without it, ran a couple of unit tests and all seems fine.

David