Can we backport this patch into stable? It fixes a build error with binutils >= 2.41. On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 13:00 +0800, Huacai Chen wrote: > Binutils 2.41 enables linker relaxation by default, but the kernel > module loader doesn't support that, so just disable it. Otherwise we > get such an error when loading modules: > > "Unknown relocation type 102" > > As an alternative, we could add linker relaxation support in the kernel > module loader. But it is relatively large complexity that may or may not > bring a similar gain, and we don't really want to include this linker > pass in the kernel. > > Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/loongarch/Makefile | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile > index 09ba338a64de..7466d3b15db8 100644 > --- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile > +++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile > @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -static -n -nostdlib > ifdef CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS > cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mexplicit-relocs) > KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += $(call cc-option,-mdirect-extern-access) > +KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-relax) $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) > +KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-relax) $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) > else > cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mno-explicit-relocs) > KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL += -Wa,-mla-global-with-pcrel -- Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
