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Message-ID: <20200624235144.GD818054@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:51:44 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/22] arm64: vdso: disable LTO
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:09:40PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:58 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Filter out CC_FLAGS_LTO for the vDSO.
> >
> > Just curious about this patch (and the following one for x86's vdso),
> > do you happen to recall specifically what the issues with the vdso's
> > are?
>
> + Andi (tangential, I actually have a bunch of tabs open with slides
> from http://halobates.de/ right now)
> 58edae3aac9f2
> 67424d5a22124
> $ git log -S DISABLE_LTO
I think I did it originally because the vDSO linker step didn't do
all the magic needed for gcc LTO. But it also doesn't seem to be
very useful for just a few functions that don't have complex
interactions, and somewhat risky for violating some assumptions.
-Andi
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