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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:34:16 -0800
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 15/17] KVM: arm64: disable LTO for the nVHE directory
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:21 AM David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Sami,
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 02:07:29PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > We use objcopy to manipulate ELF binaries for the nVHE code,
> > which fails with LTO as the compiler produces LLVM bitcode
> > instead. Disable LTO for this code to allow objcopy to be used.
>
> We now partially link the nVHE code (generating machine code) before objcopy,
> so I think you should be able to drop this patch now. Tried building your
> branch without it, ran a couple of unit tests and all seems fine.
Great, thanks for testing this, David! I'll drop this patch from v8.
Sami
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