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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc: add "-z notext" flag to disable diagnostic
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 06:01:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210814110150.GB1583@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOd=rN9s5YBtt-AMnaqXhYCsAT=6yp29_oomRvTaev6Q6zw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:59:21AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Or we can dig through why there are relocations in read only sections,
> fix those, then enable `-z text` for all linkers.  My recommendation
> would be get the thing building, then go digging time permitting.

It is not always a bug.  You can get much more efficient code if you
have text relocations than if you don't.  This "read-only" memory is
perfectly writable until after relocation, a la relro.

But you no doubt will find some non-optimalities (or even straight out
bugs) if you build with -ztext sometimes :-)


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-14 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-12 20:49 [PATCH] ppc: add "-z notext" flag to disable diagnostic Bill Wendling
2021-08-12 20:53 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-08-13 14:13 ` Daniel Axtens
2021-08-13 18:24   ` Bill Wendling
2021-08-13 18:59     ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-08-14 11:01       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2021-08-14 11:59     ` Michael Ellerman
2021-08-13 20:05   ` Fangrui Song
2021-08-14 12:58     ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-08-14 19:34       ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-08-27 14:40         ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-08-13 20:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Bill Wendling
2021-08-27 13:15   ` Michael Ellerman

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