On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 02:42, Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This flag is not supported by lld: > > ld.lld: error: unknown argument: --pic-veneer > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
Hi Nate, Does this mean ld.lld is guaranteed to produce position independent veneers if you build kernels that are bigger than the typical range of a relative branch? > --- > arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile > index e2a0baf36766..4fab2aa29570 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/Makefile > +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ > # > # Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King > > -LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer > +LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-undefined -X $(call ld-option,--pic-veneer) > ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y) > LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8 > KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8 > -- > 2.20.0.rc1 >
