Re: [PATCH v7 3/7] Adjust symbol ordering in text output section [openrisc boot failure]

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 10:51:10AM -0700, Rong Xu wrote:
> When the -ffunction-sections compiler option is enabled, each function
> is placed in a separate section named .text.function_name rather than
> putting all functions in a single .text section.
> 
...
> 
> Co-developed-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny <kpszeniczny@google.com>
> Tested-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
> Tested-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

With this patch in the tree, the openrisck qemu emulation using
or1ksim_defconfig fails to boot. There is no log output, even with
earlycon enabled.

Bisect log attached.

Guenter

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# bad: [bcc8eda6d34934d80b96adb8dc4ff5dfc632a53a] Merge tag 'turbostat-2024.11.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux
# good: [2ba9f676d0a2e408aef14d679984c26373bf37b7] Merge tag 'drm-next-2024-11-29' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel
git bisect start 'HEAD' '2ba9f676d0a2'
# good: [831c1926ee728c3e747255f7c0f434762e8e863d] Merge tag 'uml-for-linus-6.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux
git bisect good 831c1926ee728c3e747255f7c0f434762e8e863d
# bad: [6a34dfa15d6edf7e78b8118d862d2db0889cf669] Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
git bisect bad 6a34dfa15d6edf7e78b8118d862d2db0889cf669
# bad: [e397a603e49cc7c7c113fad9f55a09637f290c34] kbuild: switch from lz4c to lz4 for compression
git bisect bad e397a603e49cc7c7c113fad9f55a09637f290c34
# good: [d6a91e28d11902e6cd5715633ed6f9b6df75de32] kconfig: qconf: remove unnecessary mode check in ConfigItem::updateMenu()
git bisect good d6a91e28d11902e6cd5715633ed6f9b6df75de32
# bad: [0afd73c5f5c606b0f8f8ff036e4f5d6c4b788d02] kbuild: replace two $(abs_objtree) with $(CURDIR) in top Makefile
git bisect bad 0afd73c5f5c606b0f8f8ff036e4f5d6c4b788d02
# bad: [db0b2991ae1aac5ca985ec6fd8ff9bd9b2126c9b] vmlinux.lds.h: Add markers for text_unlikely and text_hot sections
git bisect bad db0b2991ae1aac5ca985ec6fd8ff9bd9b2126c9b
# good: [315ad8780a129e82e2c5c65ee6e970d91a577acb] kbuild: Add AutoFDO support for Clang build
git bisect good 315ad8780a129e82e2c5c65ee6e970d91a577acb
# good: [52892ed6b03a14b961c1df783ed05763758abc73] MIPS: Place __kernel_entry at the beginning of text section
git bisect good 52892ed6b03a14b961c1df783ed05763758abc73
# bad: [0043ecea2399ffc8bfd99ed9dbbe766e7c79293c] vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output section
git bisect bad 0043ecea2399ffc8bfd99ed9dbbe766e7c79293c
# first bad commit: [0043ecea2399ffc8bfd99ed9dbbe766e7c79293c] vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output section