Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/vdso64: link vdso64 with linker

Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02T18:02:37Z

Le 02/09/2020 à 19:41, Nick Desaulniers a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:14 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> writes:
>>> Fixes: commit f2af201002a8 ("powerpc/build: vdso linker warning for orphan sections")
>>
>> I think I'll just revert that for v5.9 ?
>
> SGTM; you'll probably still want these changes with some modifications
> at some point; vdso32 did have at least one orphaned section, and will
> be important for hermetic builds. Seeing crashes in supported
> versions of the tools ties our hands at the moment.
>

Keeping the tool problem aside with binutils 2.26, do you have a way to
really link an elf32ppc object when building vdso32 for PPC64 ?

Christophe