This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 8819/1: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-8819-1-remove-p-from-ldflags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 091bb549f7722723b284f63ac665e2aedcf9dec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 19:35:25 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8819/1: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 091bb549f7722723b284f63ac665e2aedcf9dec9 upstream.
This option is not supported by lld:
ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
This has been a no-op in binutils since 2004 (see commit dea514f51da1 in
that tree). Given that the lowest officially supported of binutils for
the kernel is 2.20, which was released in 2009, nobody needs this flag
around so just remove it. Commit 1a381d4a0a9a ("arm64: remove no-op -p
linker flag") did the same for arm64.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 --
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
# Ensure linker flags are correct
LDFLAGS :=
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=-p --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8
--- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
GCOV_PROFILE := n
-LDFLAGS_bootp :=-p --no-undefined -X \
+LDFLAGS_bootp := --no-undefined -X \
--defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS) \
--defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS) -T
AFLAGS_initrd.o :=-DINITRD=\"$(INITRD)\"
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
endif
-# ?
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -p
# Report unresolved symbol references
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined
# Delete all temporary local symbols
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/arm-8819-1-remove-p-from-ldflags.patch
