MIPS: vmlinux: discard .MIPS.abiflags

aakoskin · ralfbaechle · commit 613798783206 · 2015-11-10T14:44:37.000+01:00
Discard .MIPS.abiflags from vmlinux. It's not needed and will cause issues e.g. with old OCTEON bootloaders that cannot tolerate additional program headers. Before the patch: $ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0 There are 3 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align ABIFLAGS 0x00000000005e77f0 0xffffffff816e67f0 0xffffffff816e67f0 0x0000000000000018 0x0000000000000018 R 8 LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360 RWE 1000 NOTE 0x00000000004e02e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 R 4 After the patch: $ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0 There are 2 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360 RWE 1000 NOTE 0x00000000004e02e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 R 4 Suggested-by: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com> Suggested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11402/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	DISCARDS
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		/* ABI crap starts here */
+		*(.MIPS.abiflags)
 		*(.MIPS.options)
 		*(.options)
 		*(.pdr)
