[PATCH 0/7] Add support for GNU gold

Sami Tolvanen
2017-11-29T23:44:51Z

These patches add macros for detecting the linker name and version,
and apply fixes and workarounds needed to link the arm64 kernel with
GNU gold.

Sami Tolvanen (7):
kbuild: add ld-name macro and support for GNU gold
kbuild: add ld-if-name-version and linker-specific macros
kbuild: fix LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with GNU gold
arm64: fix -m for GNU gold
arm64: keep .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement
arm64: explicitly pass --no-fix-cortex-a53-843419 to GNU gold
arm64: add a workaround for GNU gold with ARM64_MODULE_PLTS

Makefile | 5 +++++
arch/arm64/Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 ++--
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 8 ++++----
scripts/Kbuild.include | 16 ++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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