Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost
authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:01:17 +0000 (09:01 +0100)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:25:05 +0000 (20:25 -0800)
- Don't warn about LTO marker symbols. modpost runs before
the linker, so the module is not necessarily LTOed yet.
- Don't complain about .gnu.lto* sections

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391846481-31491-13-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
scripts/mod/modpost.c

index f91dd45..63804a1 100644 (file)
@@ -623,7 +623,10 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
 
        switch (sym->st_shndx) {
        case SHN_COMMON:
-               warn("\"%s\" [%s] is COMMON symbol\n", symname, mod->name);
+               if (!strncmp(symname, "__gnu_lto_", sizeof("__gnu_lto_")-1)) {
+                       /* Should warn here, but modpost runs before the linker */
+               } else
+                       warn("\"%s\" [%s] is COMMON symbol\n", symname, mod->name);
                break;
        case SHN_UNDEF:
                /* undefined symbol */
@@ -849,6 +852,7 @@ static const char *section_white_list[] =
        ".xt.lit",         /* xtensa */
        ".arcextmap*",                  /* arc */
        ".gnu.linkonce.arcext*",        /* arc : modules */
+       ".gnu.lto*",
        NULL
 };