Can we backport this patch into stable? It fixes a build error with binutils >= 2.41.
On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 13:00 +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
Binutils 2.41 enables linker relaxation by default, but the kernel module loader doesn't support that, so just disable it. Otherwise we get such an error when loading modules:
"Unknown relocation type 102"
As an alternative, we could add linker relaxation support in the kernel module loader. But it is relatively large complexity that may or may not bring a similar gain, and we don't really want to include this linker pass in the kernel.
Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui git@xen0n.name Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen chenhuacai@loongson.cn
arch/loongarch/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile index 09ba338a64de..7466d3b15db8 100644 --- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile +++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -static -n -nostdlib ifdef CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mexplicit-relocs) KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += $(call cc-option,-mdirect-extern-access) +KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-relax) $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) +KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-relax) $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) else cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mno-explicit-relocs) KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL += -Wa,-mla-global-with-pcrel