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 <ak@muc.de> 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 <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Ilie Halip <ilie.halip@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> 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
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