From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),
llvm@lists.linux.dev (open list:CLANG/LLVM BUILD
SUPPORT:Keyword:\b(?i:clang|llvm)\b)
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: boot: compressed: place .rodata.* and discard .MIPS.abiflags
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 16:28:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009232857.655265-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
The decompressor linker script only collects .rodata. Clang emits the
decompressor's strings in .rodata.str1.1 and also produces a
.MIPS.abiflags section. GNU ld places such orphans next to similar
sections, but ld.lld puts them after .bss:
[ 5] .bss NOBITS 809246c0 5346b8 402010
[ 6] .MIPS.abiflags ... 80d266d0 9366d0 000018
[ 7] .rodata.str1.1 PROGBITS 80d266e8 9366e8 000164
This pulls the 4 MB of .bss (mostly the boot heap) into the file and
leaves the strings beyond _end. For BCM47XX vmlinuz grows from 5.4 MB
to 9.6 MB.
Collect .rodata.* with .rodata, and discard .MIPS.abiflags and
.gnu.attributes as arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S does.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script
index 0ebb667274d6..c45be18c6f0d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/ld.script
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SECTIONS
/* . = VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS; */
.text : {
*(.text)
- *(.rodata)
+ *(.rodata .rodata.*)
}: text
/* End of text section */
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ SECTIONS
/* Sections to be discarded */
/DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.MIPS.abiflags)
*(.MIPS.options)
+ *(.gnu.attributes)
*(.options)
*(.pdr)
*(.reginfo)
--
2.56.0
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