On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 07:11:03PM +0100, Markus wrote: > On Thursday, 11 January 2018 05:25:51 CET Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:13:00PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 06:14:56PM +0100, Markus wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 19:25:12 CET Markus wrote: > > > > > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:32:03 CET Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:56:30PM +0100, Markus wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:46:13 CET Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't see anything unusual there. Are there any Gentoo > > > > > > > > patches > > > > > > > > against either the kernel or GCC which would strip unused > > > > > > > > symbols? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The kernel is the vanilla kernel. (4.14.11 and also 4.15-rc6) > > > > > > > Its not a gentoo specific gcc patch. (Then every gentoo user would > > > > > > > be > > > > > > > affected?) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But I enabled ld.gold as default linker like 5 years ago. Never > > > > > > > had a > > > > > > > problem with this. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is ld.gold supposed to fail here? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I switched back to ld.bfd and it seems to work. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah, that explains it. With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, the linker does some > > > > > > work after gcc, but before objtool. Can you try this patch? (Note > > > > > > this > > > > > > isn't the final patch, as this breaks the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n > > > > > > case.) > > > > > > > > Any more final patch I should test? > > > > > > Sorry, this fell off my radar. I'll try to get a final patch soon. > > > (But feel free to keep bugging me if I don't!) > > > > Ok, this should be the final patch (no description yet though). Want to > > test it? > > Tried to apply to 4.14.13 and 4.15-rc7. Neither applied cleanly. > Manually editing just breaks the build with many "open: No such file or > directory". > > Dont know what went wrong. Can you maybe append patch as file?
Sure, patch is attached, based on 4.15-rc7. -- Josh
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index cb8997ed0149..6f0c0c409e67 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -265,12 +265,18 @@ else objtool_args += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, --no-unreachable) endif +ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS +objtool_o := $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) +else +objtool_o := $(@) +endif + # 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y': skip objtool checking for a directory # 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_foo.o := 'y': skip objtool checking for a file # 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_foo.o := 'n': override directory skip for a file cmd_objtool = $(if $(patsubst y%,, \ $(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_$(basetarget).o)$(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD)n), \ - $(__objtool_obj) $(objtool_args) "$(@)";) + $(__objtool_obj) $(objtool_args) "$(objtool_o)";) objtool_obj = $(if $(patsubst y%,, \ $(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_$(basetarget).o)$(OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD)n), \ $(__objtool_obj)) @@ -286,16 +292,16 @@ objtool_dep = $(objtool_obj) \ define rule_cc_o_c $(call echo-cmd,checksrc) $(cmd_checksrc) \ $(call cmd_and_fixdep,cc_o_c) \ + $(call echo-cmd,objtool) $(cmd_objtool) \ $(cmd_modversions_c) \ $(cmd_checkdoc) \ - $(call echo-cmd,objtool) $(cmd_objtool) \ $(call echo-cmd,record_mcount) $(cmd_record_mcount) endef define rule_as_o_S $(call cmd_and_fixdep,as_o_S) \ - $(cmd_modversions_S) \ - $(call echo-cmd,objtool) $(cmd_objtool) + $(call echo-cmd,objtool) $(cmd_objtool) \ + $(cmd_modversions_S) endef # List module undefined symbols (or empty line if not enabled)