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Message-ID: <5f45f55340cf54f5506a50adf61e49b27b904322.camel@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:25:40 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, Masahiro Yamada
	 <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Steven Rostedt
 <rostedt@...dmis.org>,  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, 
 clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, 
 linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
 linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/28] init: lto: ensure initcall ordering

On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 13:30 -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> With LTO, the compiler doesn't necessarily obey the link order for
> initcalls, and initcall variables need globally unique names to avoid
> collisions at link time.
> 
> This change exports __KBUILD_MODNAME and adds the initcall_id() macro,
> which uses it together with __COUNTER__ and __LINE__ to help ensure
> these variables have unique names, and moves each variable to its own
> section when LTO is enabled, so the correct order can be specified using
> a linker script.
> 
> The generate_initcall_ordering.pl script uses nm to find initcalls from
> the object files passed to the linker, and generates a linker script
> that specifies the intended order. With LTO, the script is called in
> link-vmlinux.sh.

Is this guaranteed to give you the *same* initcall ordering with LTO as
without?


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