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-flto* implies -ffunction-sections. With LTO enabled, ld.lld generates
multiple .text sections for purgatory.ro:
$ readelf -S purgatory.ro | grep " .text"
[ 1] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000040
[ 7] .text.purgatory PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000020e0
[ 9] .text.warn PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000021c0
[13] .text.sha256_upda PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000022f0
[15] .text.sha224_upda PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002be0
[17] .text.sha256_fina PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002bf0
[19] .text.sha224_fina PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002cc0
This causes WARNING from kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs():
WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 110894 at kernel/kexec_file.c:919
kexec_load_purgatory+0x37f/0x390
Fix this by disabling LTO for purgatory.
[ AFAICT, x86 is the only arch that supports LTO and purgatory. ]
We could also fix this with an explicit linker script to rejoin .text.*
sections back into .text. However, given the benefit of LTOing purgatory
is small, simply disable the production of more .text.* sections for now.
Fixes: b33fff07 ("x86, build: allow LTO to be selected")
Signed-off-by: 
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: 
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: 
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: 
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914170138.995606-1-song@kernel.org