If building with -fdata-sections on riscv, LD_ORPHAN_WARN will warn similar as below: riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.init.data.efi_loglevel' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/printk.stub.o' being placed in section `.init.data.efi_loglevel' I believe this is caused by a a typo: init.data.* should be .init.data.* Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index d1f57e4868ed..371026ca7221 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ /* init and exit section handling */ #define INIT_DATA \ KEEP(*(SORT(___kentry+*))) \ - *(.init.data init.data.*) \ + *(.init.data .init.data.*) \ MEM_DISCARD(init.data*) \ KERNEL_CTORS() \ MCOUNT_REC() \ -- 2.40.1