Re: [PATCH] arm64: relocate-rela: Add support for ld.lld

Tom Rini
2021-10-25T13:31:01Z

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 09:31:32PM +0000, Alistair Delva wrote:

> Cap end of relocations by the binary size.
>
> Linkers like to insert some auxiliary sections between .rela.dyn and
> .bss_start. These sections don't make their way to the final binary, but
> reloc_rela still tries to relocate them, resulting in attempted read
> past the end of file.
>
> When linking U-Boot with ld.lld, the STATIC_RELA feature (enabled by
> default on arm64) breaks the build. After this patch, U-Boot can be
> linked successfully with and without CONFIG_STATIC_RELA.
>
> Originally-from: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
> Cc: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@google.com>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Thanks for the patch. Do you have any other changes for LLVM/LLDB
support on arm64 platforms? I think I've had a few stumbles whenever
I've tried and not been able to cycle back to them.

--
Tom

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