Re: [PATCH 6.1&6.6 0/3] kbuild: Avoid weak external linkage where possible

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 04:58:07PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Backport this series to 6.1&6.6 because LoongArch gets build errors with
> latest binutils which has commit 599df6e2db17d1c4 ("ld, LoongArch: print
> error about linking without -fPIC or -fPIE flag in more detail").
> 
>   CC      .vmlinux.export.o
>   UPD     include/generated/utsversion.h
>   CC      init/version-timestamp.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
> loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: kernel/kallsyms.o:(.text+0): relocation R_LARCH_PCALA_HI20 against `kallsyms_markers` can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
> loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: kernel/crash_core.o:(.init.text+0x984): relocation R_LARCH_PCALA_HI20 against `kallsyms_names` can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
> loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: kernel/bpf/btf.o:(.text+0xcc7c): relocation R_LARCH_PCALA_HI20 against `__start_BTF` can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
> loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.43.50.20241126 assertion fail ../../bfd/elfnn-loongarch.c:2673
> 
> In theory 5.10&5.15 also need this, but since LoongArch get upstream at
> 5.19, so I just ignore them because there is no error report about other
> archs now.

Odd, why doesn't this affect other arches as well using new binutils?  I
hate to have to backport all of this just for one arch, as that feels
odd.

thanks,

greg k-h