From: Ivan Kokshaysky Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:26:21 +0000 (+0400) Subject: alpha: link failure fix X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc8~28 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ede426923b25414f5ec9c00fefe6727d9721dd13;p=linux-2.6 alpha: link failure fix With built-in scsi disk driver, the final link fails with a following error: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.rodata' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o This happens with -Os (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y) with all gcc-4 versions, and also with -O2 and gcc-4.3. The problem is in sd.c:sd_major() being inlined into __exit function exit_sd(), and the compiler generating a jump table in .rodata section for the 'switch' statement in sd_major(). So we have references to discarded section. Fixed with a big hammer in the form of -fno-jump-tables. Note that jump tables vs. discarded sections is a generic problem, other architectures are just lucky not to suffer from it. But with a slightly more complex switch/case statement it can be reproduced on x86 as well. So maybe at some point we should consider -fno-jump-tables as a generic compile option... Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/alpha/Makefile b/arch/alpha/Makefile index 4e1a8e2c45..4759fe751a 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/Makefile +++ b/arch/alpha/Makefile @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ NM := $(NM) -B LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -static -N #-relax CHECKFLAGS += -D__alpha__ -m64 cflags-y := -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -msmall-data +cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -fno-jump-tables) cpuflags-$(CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4) := -mcpu=ev4 cpuflags-$(CONFIG_ALPHA_EV5) := -mcpu=ev5