[PATCH 0/2] Stop generating .eh_frame sections

From: Arvind Sankar
Date: Sun Feb 23 2020 - 14:37:21 EST


In three places in the x86 kernel we are currently generating .eh_frame
sections only to discard them later via linker script. This is in the
boot code (setup.elf), the realmode trampoline (realmode.elf) and the
compressed kernel.

Implement Fangrui and Nick's suggestion [1] to fix KBUILD_CFLAGS by
adding -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to avoid generating .eh_frame
sections in the first place, rather than discarding it in the linker
script.

Arvind Sankar (2):
arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress .eh_frame sections
arch/x86: Drop unneeded linker script discard of .eh_frame

arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/setup.ld | 1 -
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 ---
arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S | 1 -
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 ++-
7 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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