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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Wrap '--pic-veneer' with ld-option
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 02:42, Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This flag is not supported by lld:
>
> ld.lld: error: unknown argument: --pic-veneer
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@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
>

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