arm64: remove no-op -p linker flag

(commit 1a381d4a0a upstream)

Linking the ARM64 defconfig kernel with LLVM lld fails with the error:

  ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
  Makefile:1015: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed

Without this flag, the ARM64 defconfig kernel successfully links with
lld and boots on Dragonboard 410c.

After digging through binutils source and changelogs, it turns out that
-p is only relevant to ancient binutils installations targeting 32-bit
ARM.  binutils accepts -p for AArch64 too, but it's always been
undocumented and silently ignored.  A comment in
ld/emultempl/aarch64elf.em explains that it's "Only here for backwards
compatibility".

Since this flag is a no-op on ARM64, we can safely drop it.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Greg Hackmann
2018-11-27 11:15:20 -08:00
committed by Chris
parent 9264044f3e
commit 04bddf2e01

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#
# Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King
LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=-p --no-undefined -X
LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=--no-undefined -X
CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds = -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
GZFLAGS :=-9