kexec_load_purgatory() can fail for many reasons - there is no need to
print an error when encountering unsupported relocations.
This solves a build issue on powerpc with binutils v2.36 and newer [1].
Since commit d1bcae833b32f1 ("ELF: Don't generate unused section
symbols") [2], binutils started dropping section symbols that it thought
were unused. This isn't an issue in general, but with kexec_file.c, gcc
is placing kexec_arch_apply_relocations[_add] into a separate
.text.unlikely section and the section symbol ".text.unlikely" is being
dropped. Due to this, recordmcount is unable to find a non-weak symbol
in .text.unlikely to generate a relocation record against. Dropping
pr_err() calls results in these functions being left in .text section,
enabling recordmcount to emit a proper relocation record.
[1] https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/388
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d1bcae833b32f1
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kexec_file.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 8347fc158d2b96..55d144c58b5278 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ int __weak
arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add(struct purgatory_info *pi, Elf_Shdr *section,
const Elf_Shdr *relsec, const Elf_Shdr *symtab)
{
- pr_err("RELA relocation unsupported.\n");
return -ENOEXEC;
}
@@ -138,7 +137,6 @@ int __weak
arch_kexec_apply_relocations(struct purgatory_info *pi, Elf_Shdr *section,
const Elf_Shdr *relsec, const Elf_Shdr *symtab)
{
- pr_err("REL relocation unsupported.\n");
return -ENOEXEC;
}
base-commit: 83d8a0d166119de813cad27ae7d61f54f9aea707
--
2.35.1
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