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charset="utf-8" Loaders respecting IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE would not load such sections, yet we need to access it ourselves when switching out of "physical mode". Leverage behavior new to GNU ld 2.46: Any contribution to .reloc which doesn't have the discardable flag set (which cannot even be expressed in ELF) will yield the output section also non-discardable. Since for intermediate binaries we don't care about section attributes, link in the new object only on the final linking pass. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki Acked-by: Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 Reported-by: to only cover new findings (or if two people observed the --- With a new enough linker, $(dot-target).2r.o could be leveraged instead: $(dot-target).2r.S is going to be empty (or if it's not, the .reloc section there would already have the wanted property), so instead of adding the new relocs-empty.S we could also insert the section directive there. Overall that seemed more convoluted to me, though. --- a/xen/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ note_file_option ?=3D $(note_file) =20 extra-$(XEN_BUILD_PE) +=3D efi.lds ifeq ($(XEN_BUILD_PE),y) -$(TARGET).efi: $(objtree)/prelink.o $(note_file) $(obj)/efi.lds $(obj)/efi= /relocs-dummy.o $(obj)/efi/mkreloc +$(TARGET).efi: $(obj)/efi/relocs-dummy.o $(obj)/efi/relocs-empty.o $(obj)/= efi/mkreloc +$(TARGET).efi: $(objtree)/prelink.o $(note_file) $(obj)/efi.lds ifeq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO),y) $(if $(filter --strip-debug,$(EFI_LDFLAGS)),echo,:) "Will strip debug inf= o from $(@F)" endif @@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ endif $(MAKE) $(build)=3D$(@D) .$(@F).2r.o .$(@F).2s.o $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).1r.o, $(dot-target).2r.o) $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).1s.o, $(dot-target).2s.o) - $(LD) $(call EFI_LDFLAGS,$(VIRT_BASE)) -T $(obj)/efi.lds $< \ + $(LD) $(call EFI_LDFLAGS,$(VIRT_BASE)) -T $(obj)/efi.lds $< $(obj)/efi/re= locs-empty.o \ $(dot-target).2r.o $(dot-target).2s.o $(orphan-handling-y) \ $(note_file_option) -o $@ $(NM) -pa --format=3Dsysv $@ \ @@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ $(TARGET).efi: FORCE endif =20 # These should already have been rebuilt when building the prerequisite of= "prelink.o" -$(obj)/efi/buildid.o $(obj)/efi/relocs-dummy.o: ; +$(obj)/efi/buildid.o $(obj)/efi/relocs-dummy.o $(obj)/efi/relocs-empty.o: ; =20 .PHONY: include include: $(objtree)/arch/x86/include/asm/asm-macros.h --- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile @@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ obj-y :=3D common-stub.o stub.o obj-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) :=3D $(filter-out %.init.o,$(EFIOBJ-y)) obj-bin-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) :=3D $(filter %.init.o,$(EFIOBJ-y)) obj-bin-y +=3D mbi2.init.o -extra-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) +=3D buildid.o relocs-dummy.o +extra-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) +=3D buildid.o relocs-dummy.o relocs-empty.o nocov-$(XEN_BUILD_EFI) +=3D stub.o --- /dev/null +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/relocs-empty.S @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +/* + * Empty .reloc section, simply to indicate to GNU ld that the output .rel= oc + * section in xen.efi should not be marked IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE. This + * requires GNU ld 2.46 or newer to actually be understood in the intended= way. + */ + + .section .reloc, "a", @progbits + .balign 4