From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/17] lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:34:12 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjlxf8fn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391846481-31491-5-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com>
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> writes:
> From: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
>
> 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.
>
> Minor tweaks by AK over Joe's patch.
Patch is fine, but what's with the comment?
> switch (sym[i].st_shndx) {
> case SHN_COMMON:
> + /* Ignore common symbols */
> + if (!strncmp(name, "__gnu_lto", 9))
> + break;
> +
You mean, "/* Ignore symbols from -flto */"?
Other than that, I'm happy for this to go via some other tree:
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 1:23 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 [this message]
2014-02-14 4:30 ` [tip:x86/asmlinkage] " tip-bot for Joe Mario
2014-02-20 23:11 ` Rusty Russell
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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