On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> This option is not supported by lld:
>
> ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
>
> This has been a no-op in binutils since 2004 (see commit dea514f51da1 in
> that tree). Given that the lowest officially supported of binutils for
> the kernel is 2.20, which was released in 2009, nobody needs this flag
> around so just remove it. Commit 1a381d4a0a9a ("arm64: remove no-op -p
> linker flag") did the same for arm64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <ste...@agner.ch>
You may now submit your patch to RMK's patch system:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Collect tags
>
> * Remove an additional occurence of '-p' in the bootp Makefile, thank
> you to Stefan for pointing it out
>
> * Drop patch 2/2, it will be fixed properly in lld:
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D55505
>
> arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 --
> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index 0436002d5091..1d48c8ed5f89 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> #
> # Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King
>
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=-p --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
> +LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --no-undefined -X --pic-veneer
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
> KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> index 83e1a076a5d6..981a8d03f064 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>
> GCOV_PROFILE := n
>
> -LDFLAGS_bootp :=-p --no-undefined -X \
> +LDFLAGS_bootp := --no-undefined -X \
> --defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS) \
> --defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS) -T
> AFLAGS_initrd.o :=-DINITRD=\"$(INITRD)\"
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index 01bf2585a0fa..ecfa4ca320a7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ endif
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
> endif
> -# ?
> -LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -p
> # Report unresolved symbol references
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-undefined
> # Delete all temporary local symbols
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
