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authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>2020-10-24 07:50:47 +0300
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>2020-11-06 11:03:48 +0300
commitc2c81bb2f69138f902e1a58d3bef6ad97fb8a92c (patch)
tree5251b4b631c953597711d4bcd04147a255621c1f /include/linux
parent1074dd44c5ba377f90e2d0d99a784f73dbea6ff7 (diff)
downloadlinux-c2c81bb2f69138f902e1a58d3bef6ad97fb8a92c.tar.xz
RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+
We were relying on GNU ld's ability to re-link executable files in order to extract our VDSO symbols. This behavior was deemed a bug as of binutils-2.35 (specifically the binutils-gdb commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any attempt to link in an executable is made."), but as that has been backported to at least Debian's binutils-2.34 in may manifest in other places. The previous version of this was a bit of a mess: we were linking a static executable version of the VDSO, containing only a subset of the input symbols, which we then linked into the kernel. This worked, but certainly wasn't a supported path through the toolchain. Instead this new version parses the textual output of nm to produce a symbol table. Both rely on near-zero addresses being linkable, but as we rely on weak undefined symbols being linkable elsewhere I don't view this as a major issue. Fixes: e2c0cdfba7f6 ("RISC-V: User-facing API") Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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