On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 10:34, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Mike Lothian wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 08:57, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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