[PATCH] LoongArch: Apply dynamic relocations for LLD

From: WANG Rui
Date: Thu Nov 23 2023 - 22:56:16 EST


For the following assembly code:

.text
.global func
func:
nop

.data
var:
.dword func

When linked with `-pie`, GNU LD populates the `var` variable with the
pre-relocated value of `func`. However, LLVM LLD does not exhibit the
same behavior. This issue also arises with the `kernel_entry` in
arch/loongarch/kernel/head.S:

_head:
.word MZ_MAGIC /* "MZ", MS-DOS header */
.org 0x8
.dword kernel_entry /* Kernel entry point */

The correct kernel entry from the MS-DOS header is crucial for jumping
to vmlinux from zboot. This necessity is why the compressed kernel
compiled by Clang encounters difficulties in booting.

To address this problem, it is proposed to apply dynamic relocations to
place with `--apply-dynamic-relocs`.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1962
Signed-off-by: WANG Rui <wangrui@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index 1f0d74403419..05ab85118212 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ endif

ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE),y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -fPIE
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -static -pie --no-dynamic-linker -z notext
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -static -pie --no-dynamic-linker -z notext $(call ld-option, --apply-dynamic-relocs)
endif

cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -mno-check-zero-division)
--
2.43.0