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Date:   Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:45:10 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To:     Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv module: remove (NOLOAD)
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 12:26:11AM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
> inappropriate for .plt, .got, and .got.plt 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 outdated for ELF.

Thank you for the patch! As mentioned on the arm64 patch, this needs
your Signed-off-by tag. With that provided:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

This needs to go to stable so that older trees with a newer toolchain do
not warn.

> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> index 4254ff2ff049..1075beae1ac6 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
>  /* Copyright (C) 2017 Andes Technology Corporation */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SECTIONS
>  SECTIONS {
> -	.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> -	.got (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> -	.got.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
> +	.plt : { BYTE(0) }
> +	.got : { BYTE(0) }
> +	.got.plt : { BYTE(0) }
>  }
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog
> 
>