On 27/03/25 8:36 pm, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
On 3/27/25 7:31 PM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
On 27/03/25 7:22 pm, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
On 3/27/25 12:33 AM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
Greetings!!!
I see below build warnings while compiling mainline kernel on IBM Power9 system.
Repo Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
Head Commit: f6e0150b2003fb2b9265028a618aa1732b3edc8f
Attached is the .config.
Machine: IBM Power9
gcc version 11.5.0
What is the ld version in your system.
Please find the ld version below.
GNU ld version 2.35.2-59.el9
ah ok that explains. Kindly can you try with this patch and let us know whether
this fixes the warning in your setup
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 1db60fe13802..09ceb5a42d81 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ fi
# suppress some warnings in recent ld versions
nowarn="-z noexecstack"
if ! ld_is_lld; then
- if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.39 | ld_version)" ]; then
+ if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.35 | ld_version)" ]; then
nowarn="$nowarn --no-warn-rwx-segments"
fi
fi
Above change fixes the issue. No warnings observed. Thank you!!
Regards,
Venkat.
Reason for asking is that currently with
commit 579aee9fc594a ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker
versions")
ld version greater than >2.39, this warning is being suppressed.
Maddy
Warnings:
ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX
permissions
ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries has a LOAD segment with RWX
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If you happen to fix this, please add below tag.
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venka...@linux.ibm.com>
Regards,
Venkat.
