From 163159aad74d3763b350861b879b41e8f64121fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilie Halip Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:45:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86/boot: Discard .eh_frame sections When using GCC as compiler and LLVM's lld as linker, linking setup.elf fails: LD arch/x86/boot/setup.elf ld.lld: error: init sections too big! This happens because GCC generates .eh_frame sections for most of the files in that directory, then ld.lld places the merged section before __end_init, triggering an assert in the linker script. Fix this by discarding the .eh_frame sections, as suggested by Boris. The kernel proper linker script discards them too. [ bp: Going back in history, 64-bit kernel proper has been discarding .eh_frame since 2002: commit acca80acefe20420e69561cf55be64f16c34ea97 Author: Andi Kleen Date: Tue Oct 29 23:54:35 2002 -0800 [PATCH] x86-64 updates for 2.5.44 ... - Remove the .eh_frame on linking. This saves several hundred KB in the bzImage ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Ilie Halip Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: x86-ml Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191118175223.GM6363@zn.tnic/ Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/760 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191126144545.19354-1-ilie.halip@gmail.com --- arch/x86/boot/setup.ld | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld index 0149e41..3da1c37 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld +++ b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld @@ -51,7 +51,10 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(16); _end = .; - /DISCARD/ : { *(.note*) } + /DISCARD/ : { + *(.eh_frame) + *(.note*) + } /* * The ASSERT() sink to . is intentional, for binutils 2.14 compatibility: -- 2.7.4