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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jmario@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@linux.intel.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	jmario@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asmlinkage] lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:41:37 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ios99y6u.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-80375980f1608f43b47abc2671456b23ec68c434@git.kernel.org>

tip-bot for Joe Mario <tipbot@zytor.com> writes:
> Commit-ID:  80375980f1608f43b47abc2671456b23ec68c434
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/80375980f1608f43b47abc2671456b23ec68c434
> Author:     Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
> AuthorDate: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:01:09 +0100
> Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> CommitDate: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:24:50 -0800
>
> lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
>
> Here is the workaround I made for having the kernel not reject modules
> built with -flto.  The clean solution would be to get the compiler to not
> emit the symbol.  Or if it has to emit the symbol, then emit it as
> initialized data but put it into a comdat/linkonce section.

Gah, as I said, fix the damn comment!

>  		case SHN_COMMON:
> +			/* Ignore common symbols */
> +			if (!strncmp(name, "__gnu_lto", 9))
> +				break;
> +
>  			/* We compiled with -fno-common.  These are not

/* Ignore common symbols */ is so bad, it's not even wrong.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-08  8:01 [PATCH 01/17] x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 02/17] x86, lto: Disable fancy hweight optimizations for LTO v2 Andi Kleen
2014-02-08 18:52   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-08 20:21     ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-08 21:43       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 03/17] lto: Make asmlinkage __visible Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:30   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  9:10     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-14 14:38       ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 04/17] lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:30   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 05/17] lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader Andi Kleen
2014-02-12  1:04   ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-14  4:30   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Joe Mario
2014-02-20 23:11     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2014-02-21 19:12       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-21 22:37         ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 06/17] lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:31   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 07/17] Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:31   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don' t " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 08/17] Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes " Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:31   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 09/17] Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:31   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 10/17] Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:31   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 11/17] Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:32   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 12/17] Kbuild, lto: Set TMPDIR for LTO Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:26   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 15:37     ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 13/17] Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:32   ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 14/17] Kbuild, lto: Add Link Time Optimization support Andi Kleen
2014-02-14  4:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 14:36     ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-14 16:25       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 15/17] Kbuild, lto: Add LTO build Documentation Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 16/17] lto: Mark spinlocks noinline when inline spinlocks are disabled Andi Kleen
2014-02-08  8:01 ` [PATCH 17/17] lto, module: Warn about modules that are not fully LTOed Andi Kleen
2014-02-12  1:13   ` Rusty Russell
2014-02-14  4:30 ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO tip-bot for Andi Kleen

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