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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 10:39:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305163937.GE22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ed7cd84a7d1a3180b30c0c60e70eed8bb8b40c3.1583415544.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:05:30PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> GCC v8 defaults to enabling -fasynchronous-unwind-tables due to
> https://gcc.gnu.org/r259298, which results in .eh_frame section being
> generated. This results in additional disk usage by the build, as well
> as the kernel modules. Since the kernel has no use for this, this
> section is discarded.
> 
> Add -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to KBUILD_CFLAGS to suppress
> generation of .eh_frame section. Note that our VDSOs need .eh_frame, but
> are not affected by this change since our VDSO code are all in assembly.

That may change, but it is easy to change again for just the VDSOs.

> Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>

Thanks!


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-05 14:35 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm Naveen N. Rao
2020-03-05 14:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation Naveen N. Rao
2020-03-05 16:39   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-04-01 12:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm Michael Ellerman

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