Re: [PATCH 5/7] arm64: keep .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement

Nick Desaulniers
2017-11-29T23:57:58Z

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
> Make sure the linker doesn't remove .altinstructions or
> .altinstr_replacement when CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is
> enabled.

This sounds like a bug in the original implementation of
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION? If so, this can likely get
merged regardless of the rest of the patchset, ie. gold support.