[PATCH] arm64 module: remove (NOLOAD)

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:12:09 -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
> inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
> SHT_PROGBITS.
> 
> In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
> and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
> customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
> mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/linkage), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/4013e26670c5

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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