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From:   Mike Lothian <mike@fireburn.co.uk>
Date:   Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:13:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 10:34, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Mike Lothian wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 08:57, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > I've done a bit more digging, I had a second machine that was building
> > Linus's tree just fine with ld.gold
> >
> > I tried forcing ld.bfd on the problem machine and got this:
> >
> > ld.bfd: arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.o: warning: relocation in
> > read-only section `.head.text'
> > ld.bfd: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in object
> >
> > I had a look at the differences in the kernel configs and noticed this:
> >
> > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
> > CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS=y
> > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x1000000
> > CONFIG_DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT=y
> > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY=y
> > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING=0x0
> >
> > Unsetting CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y gets things working for me with ld.gold again
>
> Can you please provide the full config? I have the above set here and it
> builds just fine.
>
> > In light of this - can we drop this patch?
>
> No. I'm not going to deal with unsupported tools.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx

Hi

Here is my config

https://github.com/FireBurn/KernelStuff/blob/9b7e96581598d50b266f9df258e7de764949147a/dot_config_tip

Regards

Mike