On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:44:38PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Very late of course, and the patch is fine, but:
>
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 01:59:53PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Commit eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input
> > sections") added ".text.unlikely.*" and ".text.hot.*" due to an LLVM
> > change [1].
> >
> > After another LLVM change [2], these sections are seen in some PowerPC
> > builds, where there is a orphan section warning then build failure:
> >
> > $ make -skj"$(nproc)" \
> > ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out \
> > distclean powernv_defconfig zImage.epapr
> > ld.lld: warning: kernel/built-in.a(panic.o):(.text.unlikely.) is being placed in '.text.unlikely.'
>
> Is the section really called ".text.unlikely.", i.e. the name ending in
> a dot? How very unusual, is there some bug elsewhere?
No, this was an intention change done by LLVM:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
Cheers,
Nathan
