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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>2011-08-03 09:31:51 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2011-08-04 16:13:38 -0700
commitf670bb760e7d32ec9c690e748a1d5d04921363ab (patch)
tree00e4c05a5b92ed93d513af7c5a355980fc0cd7f4 /arch/x86/kernel
parent9c40818da5b39fca236029059ab839857b1ef56c (diff)
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x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
Gold has trouble assigning numbers to the location counter inside of an output section description. The bug was triggered by 9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7, which consolidated all of the vsyscall sections into a single section. The workaround is IMO still nicer than the old way of doing it. This produces an apparently valid kernel image and passes my vdso tests on both GNU ld version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118 and GNU gold (version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118) 1.10 as distributed by Fedora 15. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b260cb806f1f9a25c00ce8377a5f035d57f557a.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e79fb3951fce..8f3a265476d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -158,10 +158,12 @@ SECTIONS
__vvar_page = .;
.vvar : AT(ADDR(.vvar) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ /* work around gold bug 13023 */
+ __vvar_beginning_hack = .;
- /* Place all vvars at the offsets in asm/vvar.h. */
-#define EMIT_VVAR(name, offset) \
- . = offset; \
+ /* Place all vvars at the offsets in asm/vvar.h. */
+#define EMIT_VVAR(name, offset) \
+ . = __vvar_beginning_hack + offset; \
*(.vvar_ ## name)
#define __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS
#include <asm/vvar.h>
@@ -184,15 +186,17 @@ SECTIONS
. = VSYSCALL_ADDR;
.vsyscall : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall)) {
+ /* work around gold bug 13023 */
+ __vsyscall_beginning_hack = .;
*(.vsyscall_0)
- . = 1024;
+ . = __vsyscall_beginning_hack + 1024;
*(.vsyscall_1)
- . = 2048;
+ . = __vsyscall_beginning_hack + 2048;
*(.vsyscall_2)
- . = 4096; /* Pad the whole page. */
+ . = __vsyscall_beginning_hack + 4096; /* Pad the whole page. */
} :user =0xcc
. = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);