arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script
authorFangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:12:09 +0000 (00:12 -0800)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:06:50 +0000 (14:06 +0000)
commit4013e26670c590944abdab56c4fa797527b74325
tree8591687c7c369b7b0fd1ebe974d613ec96196376
parentbe9aea74400433e03c2a8b0260fc9ffe2495f698
arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h