Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:32:18PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
>> When building a 32 bit powerpc kernel with Binutils 2.31.1 this warning
>> is emitted:
>>
>> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.branch_lt' from
>> `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.branch_lt'
>>
>> As of binutils commit 2d7ad24e8726 ("Support PLT16 relocs against local
>> symbols")[1], 32 bit targets can produce .branch_lt sections in their
>> output.
>>
>> Include these symbols in the .data section as the ppc64 kernel does.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d7ad24e8726ba4c45c9e67be08223a146a837ce
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com>
>
> Looks fine to me.
>
>> ---
>> I wasn't sure where this should go or if the ordering matters.
>
> The usual answer is: "Look at where the section goes in the standard
> linker scripts." But that doesn't apply here. The section will be
> empty for a kernel build so it doesn't matter where it goes.
If it's empty why don't we just discard it?
cheers
