This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o
to the 6.1-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:
arm64-remove-special-treatment-for-the-link-order-of-head.o.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 994b7ac1697b4581b7726d2ac64321e3c840229b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:35:00 +0900
Subject: arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 994b7ac1697b4581b7726d2ac64321e3c840229b upstream.
In the previous discussion (see the Link tag), Ard pointed out that
arm/arm64/kernel/head.o does not need any special treatment - the only
piece that must appear right at the start of the binary image is the
image header which is emitted into .head.text.
The linker script does the right thing to do. The build system does
not need to manipulate the link order of head.o.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMj1kXH77Ja8bSsq2Qj8Ck9iSZKw=1F8Uy-uAWGVDm4-CG=EuA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012233500.156764-1-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/head-object-list.txt | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/head-object-list.txt
+++ b/scripts/head-object-list.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ arch/alpha/kernel/head.o
arch/arc/kernel/head.o
arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.o
arch/arm/kernel/head.o
-arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
arch/csky/kernel/head.o
arch/hexagon/kernel/head.o
arch/ia64/kernel/head.o
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/s390-define-runtime_discard_exit-to-fix-link-error-with-gnu-ld-2.36.patch
queue-6.1/arm64-remove-special-treatment-for-the-link-order-of-head.o.patch
queue-6.1/sh-define-runtime_discard_exit.patch
queue-6.1/arch-fix-broken-buildid-for-arm64-and-riscv.patch
