arm64: remove no-op -p linker flag
authorGreg Hackmann <ghackmann@android.com>
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:15:20 +0000 (11:15 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 1 Dec 2018 08:42:55 +0000 (09:42 +0100)
commit38f94eca31d47db6429edb1ba6a560db1f34d298
treebbb1e93d8e08a0534f2db55c4c32b992e8ace1a3
parent5f2b2c591fc8fd84c70fd591aa13d903e32c2df7
arm64: remove no-op -p linker flag

(commit 1a381d4a0a9a0f999a13faaba22bf6b3fc80dcb9 upstream)

Linking the ARM64 defconfig kernel with LLVM lld fails with the error:

  ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
  Makefile:1015: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed

Without this flag, the ARM64 defconfig kernel successfully links with
lld and boots on Dragonboard 410c.

After digging through binutils source and changelogs, it turns out that
-p is only relevant to ancient binutils installations targeting 32-bit
ARM.  binutils accepts -p for AArch64 too, but it's always been
undocumented and silently ignored.  A comment in
ld/emultempl/aarch64elf.em explains that it's "Only here for backwards
compatibility".

Since this flag is a no-op on ARM64, we can safely drop it.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/Makefile