Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] efi/libstub/arm64: link stub lib.a conditionally

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 04:00:34 EST


On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 09:58, Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 11:20:30AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Since commit 799c43415442 ("kbuild: thin archives make default for
> > all archs"), core-y is passed to the linker with --whole-archive.
> > Hence, the whole of stub library is linked to vmlinux.
> >
> > Use libs-y so that lib.a is passed after --no-whole-archive for
> > conditional linking.
> >
> > The unused drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.o will be dropped
> > for ARCH=arm64.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > This patch touches under arch/arm64/, but
> > this is more related to efi.
> > I am sending this to Ard.
>
> Ok, I'll ignore this then. Ard -- please yell if you want me to do anything
> else with it.
>

I am going to send a batch of EFI fixes early next week, so I can take
this as well, or alternatively, you can apply it directly.

>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > index 650e1185c190..48a6afa774fc 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
> > @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export TEXT_OFFSET
> >
> > core-y += arch/arm64/
> > libs-y := arch/arm64/lib/ $(libs-y)
> > -core-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a
> > +libs-$(CONFIG_EFI_STUB) += $(objtree)/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a
> >
> > # Default target when executing plain make
> > boot := arch/arm64/boot
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >