From 67b0141bd12d3a609d47ebbb53a4df67e3fdf4c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:21:08 +0100 Subject: ARM: 8995/1: drop Thumb-2 workaround for ancient binutils The CONFIG_THUMB2_AVOID_R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 workaround addresses an issue which was fixed before the oldest supported binutils (2.23 at this time) were released. So we can remove it now. Acked-by: Dave Martin Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 910e89f9023c..1b65ff94ad1c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1422,37 +1422,6 @@ config THUMB2_KERNEL If unsure, say N. -config THUMB2_AVOID_R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 - bool "Work around buggy Thumb-2 short branch relocations in gas" - depends on THUMB2_KERNEL && MODULES - default y - help - Various binutils versions can resolve Thumb-2 branches to - locally-defined, preemptible global symbols as short-range "b.n" - branch instructions. - - This is a problem, because there's no guarantee the final - destination of the symbol, or any candidate locations for a - trampoline, are within range of the branch. For this reason, the - kernel does not support fixing up the R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 (102) - relocation in modules at all, and it makes little sense to add - support. - - The symptom is that the kernel fails with an "unsupported - relocation" error when loading some modules. - - Until fixed tools are available, passing - -fno-optimize-sibling-calls to gcc should prevent gcc generating - code which hits this problem, at the cost of a bit of extra runtime - stack usage in some cases. - - The problem is described in more detail at: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+bug/725126 - - Only Thumb-2 kernels are affected. - - Unless you are sure your tools don't have this problem, say Y. - config ARM_PATCH_IDIV bool "Runtime patch udiv/sdiv instructions into __aeabi_{u}idiv()" depends on CPU_32v7 && !XIP_KERNEL -- cgit v1.2.3