On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:32:48PM +0800, Youling Tang wrote:
> On 11/19/2020 03:18 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 02:45, Youling Tang <tangyoul...@loongson.cn> wrote:
> > > We currently try to emit *.init.rodata.* twice, once in INIT_DATA, and 
> > > once
> > > in the line immediately following it. As the two section definitions are
> > > identical, the latter is redundant and can be dropped.
> > > 
> > > This patch drops the redundant *.init.rodata.* section definition.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyoul...@loongson.cn>
> > .init.rodata.* was added to INIT_DATA in
> > 266ff2a8f51f02b429a987d87634697eb0d01d6a, so removing it here seems
> > reasonable. However, it does conflict with the for-next/lto branch in
> > the arm64 tree.
> > 
> The possible causes of the conflict are e35123d83ee submit.
> 
> master branch code as follows:
>     ...
>     INIT_RAM_FS
>     *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss)     /* from the EFI stub */
> 
> for-next/lto branch code as follows:
>     ...
>     INIT_RAM_FS
>     *(.init.altinstructions .init.rodata.* .init.bss) /* from the EFI stub

That looks trivial enough for us to sort out, especially if this patch can
wait until 5.11 (I think it can).

Will

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