[PATCH] ARM: add KEEP() keyword to ARM_VECTORS

Christian Eggers ceggers at arri.de
Fri Feb 21 04:55:20 PST 2025


Without this, the vectors are removed if LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
is enabled.  At startup, the CPU (silently) hangs in the undefined
instruction exception as soon as the first timer interrupt arrives.

On my setup, the system also boots fine without the 2nd and 3rd KEEP()
statements, so I cannot tell whether these are actually required.

Fixes: ed0f94102251 ("ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers at arri.de>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
index d60f6e83a9f7..f2ff79f740ab 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@
 	__vectors_lma = .;						\
 	OVERLAY 0xffff0000 : NOCROSSREFS AT(__vectors_lma) {		\
 		.vectors {						\
-			*(.vectors)					\
+			KEEP(*(.vectors))				\
 		}							\
 		.vectors.bhb.loop8 {					\
-			*(.vectors.bhb.loop8)				\
+			KEEP(*(.vectors.bhb.loop8))			\
 		}							\
 		.vectors.bhb.bpiall {					\
-			*(.vectors.bhb.bpiall)				\
+			KEEP(*(.vectors.bhb.bpiall))			\
 		}							\
 	}								\
 	ARM_LMA(__vectors, .vectors);					\
-- 
2.44.1




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