Relocatable kernel builds produce a warning about .gnu.hash being an orphan section:
ld: warning: orphan section `.gnu.hash' from `linker stubs' being placed in section `.gnu.hash' If we try to discard it the build fails: ld -EL -m elf64lppc -pie --orphan-handling=warn --build-id -o .tmp_vmlinux1 -T ./arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds --whole-archive arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.o ... sound/built-in.a net/built-in.a virt/built-in.a --no-whole-archive --start-group lib/lib.a --end-group ld: could not find section .gnu.hash So add an entry to explicitly retain it, as we do for .hash. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index b4c89a1acebb..31a0f201fb6f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.dynamic) } .hash : AT(ADDR(.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.hash) } + .gnu.hash : AT(ADDR(.gnu.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.gnu.hash) } .interp : AT(ADDR(.interp) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.interp) } .rela.dyn : AT(ADDR(.rela.dyn) - LOAD_OFFSET) { -- 2.21.1