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 08:48:00 +0000 (09:48 +0100)
commitd5942fa8beca2c59d1b03af124a954b40eadaca0
tree8067c613df5f9ff4a9e29e20ed8f5df3cb149c17
parenta4a8c9e8c708ddf8907f1ecb432be4eb519d9c59
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