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board/qemu/sh4-r2d: fix sh4 kernel bug with Binutils 2.33

Message ID 20191230133640.9702-1-romain.naour@gmail.com
State Accepted
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Series board/qemu/sh4-r2d: fix sh4 kernel bug with Binutils 2.33 | expand

Commit Message

Romain Naour Dec. 30, 2019, 1:36 p.m. UTC
Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
with Binutils >= 2.33.
Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
[2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
---
 .../linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch      |  32 ++++
 ...03-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch |  32 ++++
 .../linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch      |  32 ++++
 ...03-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch |  27 ++++
 ...311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch | 148 ------------------
 5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
 create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
 create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
 create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
 delete mode 100644 package/binutils/2.33.1/0003-Revert-PR24311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch

Comments

Thomas Petazzoni Dec. 30, 2019, 1:53 p.m. UTC | #1
Hello Romain,

On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:36:40 +0100
Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:

> Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
> with Binutils >= 2.33.
> Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>

Thanks a lot for those fixes. Have the kernel patches been submitted
upstream, and accepted?

One issue with your change is of course that now the fix only works
when building the specific qemu_sh4 defconfigs. When not using one of
those defconfigs, but simply building the regular Linux kernel for SH4,
will lead to a kernel that no longer boots.

Thomas
Romain Naour Dec. 30, 2019, 2:16 p.m. UTC | #2
Hello Thomas,

Le 30/12/2019 à 14:53, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello Romain,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:36:40 +0100
> Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
>> with Binutils >= 2.33.
>> Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
>>
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
>> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks a lot for those fixes. Have the kernel patches been submitted
> upstream, and accepted?

Not yet, I replied to Alan Modra to do so [1].

> 
> One issue with your change is of course that now the fix only works
> when building the specific qemu_sh4 defconfigs. When not using one of
> those defconfigs, but simply building the regular Linux kernel for SH4,
> will lead to a kernel that no longer boots.

Indeed but I don't think is great to keep the non-upstream patch I've made
reverting [2] for Binutils >= 2.33 for all architectures just to workaround a
sh4 kernel bug. At the time I didn't know that was a sh4 kernel bug...

The two sh4 kernel patches are probably easy to backport as soon as a sh4
toolchain using Binutils >= 2.33 is used.

[1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00386.html
[2]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Thomas
>
Romain Naour March 15, 2020, 8:46 p.m. UTC | #3
Hello Thomas,

Le 30/12/2019 à 15:16, Romain Naour a écrit :
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> Le 30/12/2019 à 14:53, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>> Hello Romain,
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:36:40 +0100
>> Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
>>> with Binutils >= 2.33.
>>> Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
>>>
>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
>>> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for those fixes. Have the kernel patches been submitted
>> upstream, and accepted?
> 
> Not yet, I replied to Alan Modra to do so [1].

I just posted theses two patches to the linux-sh mailing list:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-sh/list/?series=256703

We need to move forward to add binutils 2.34.

Best regards,
Romain

> 
>>
>> One issue with your change is of course that now the fix only works
>> when building the specific qemu_sh4 defconfigs. When not using one of
>> those defconfigs, but simply building the regular Linux kernel for SH4,
>> will lead to a kernel that no longer boots.
> 
> Indeed but I don't think is great to keep the non-upstream patch I've made
> reverting [2] for Binutils >= 2.33 for all architectures just to workaround a
> sh4 kernel bug. At the time I didn't know that was a sh4 kernel bug...
> 
> The two sh4 kernel patches are probably easy to backport as soon as a sh4
> toolchain using Binutils >= 2.33 is used.
> 
> [1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00386.html
> [2]
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
> 
> Best regards,
> Romain
> 
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>
Romain Naour June 2, 2020, 9:21 p.m. UTC | #4
Hello Thomas, All,

Le 15/03/2020 à 21:46, Romain Naour a écrit :
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> Le 30/12/2019 à 15:16, Romain Naour a écrit :
>> Hello Thomas,
>>
>> Le 30/12/2019 à 14:53, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>>> Hello Romain,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:36:40 +0100
>>> Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
>>>> with Binutils >= 2.33.
>>>> Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
>>>> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for those fixes. Have the kernel patches been submitted
>>> upstream, and accepted?
>>
>> Not yet, I replied to Alan Modra to do so [1].
> 
> I just posted theses two patches to the linux-sh mailing list:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-sh/list/?series=256703
> 
> We need to move forward to add binutils 2.34.

Those patches are going to be merged for kernel 5.8 after being acked by kernel
maintainers:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-sh/list/?series=256703

Best regards,
Romain


> 
> Best regards,
> Romain
> 
>>
>>>
>>> One issue with your change is of course that now the fix only works
>>> when building the specific qemu_sh4 defconfigs. When not using one of
>>> those defconfigs, but simply building the regular Linux kernel for SH4,
>>> will lead to a kernel that no longer boots.
>>
>> Indeed but I don't think is great to keep the non-upstream patch I've made
>> reverting [2] for Binutils >= 2.33 for all architectures just to workaround a
>> sh4 kernel bug. At the time I didn't know that was a sh4 kernel bug...
>>
>> The two sh4 kernel patches are probably easy to backport as soon as a sh4
>> toolchain using Binutils >= 2.33 is used.
>>
>> [1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00386.html
>> [2]
>> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Romain
>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>
>
Thomas Petazzoni June 24, 2020, 9:05 p.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:36:40 +0100
Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:

> Remove the Binutils patch reverting [1] that trigger a sh4 kernel bug
> with Binutils >= 2.33.
> Add two kernel patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch      |  32 ++++
>  ...03-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch |  32 ++++
>  .../linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch      |  32 ++++
>  ...03-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch |  27 ++++
>  ...311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch | 148 ------------------
>  5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
>  create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
>  create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
>  create mode 100644 board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
>  delete mode 100644 package/binutils/2.33.1/0003-Revert-PR24311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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Patch

diff --git a/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch b/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..941052c2b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ 
+From fe657afd48fc67841d32207ef9eeeb5f099764cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:52:04 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arch/sh: vmlinux.scr
+
+Building the kernel using a toolchain built with Binutils 2.33.1 prevent
+booting a sh4 system under Qemu.
+Apply the patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
+
+[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
+[2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr b/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+index 862d74808236..dd292b4b9082 100644
+--- a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
++++ b/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ SECTIONS
+ {
+-  .rodata..compressed : {
++  .rodata..compressed : ALIGN(8) {
+ 	input_len = .;
+ 	LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .;
+ 	*(.data)
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch b/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3dfa0d3824
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/qemu/sh4-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ 
+From 7f92adbba385a4e512abfd6633ac0f9f0cdf91f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:54:07 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] include/asm-generic: vmlinux.lds.h
+
+Building the kernel using a toolchain built with Binutils 2.33.1 prevent
+booting a sh4 system under Qemu.
+Apply the patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
+
+[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
+[2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+index d7701d466b60..1aa33597e91e 100644
+--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
++++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@
+  */
+ #ifndef RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA
+ #define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA						\
++	. = ALIGN(8);							\
+ 	__start_ro_after_init = .;					\
+ 	*(.data..ro_after_init)						\
+ 	__end_ro_after_init = .;
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch b/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..941052c2b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0002-arch-sh-vmlinux.scr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ 
+From fe657afd48fc67841d32207ef9eeeb5f099764cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:52:04 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arch/sh: vmlinux.scr
+
+Building the kernel using a toolchain built with Binutils 2.33.1 prevent
+booting a sh4 system under Qemu.
+Apply the patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata.
+
+[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e
+[2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr b/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+index 862d74808236..dd292b4b9082 100644
+--- a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
++++ b/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ SECTIONS
+ {
+-  .rodata..compressed : {
++  .rodata..compressed : ALIGN(8) {
+ 	input_len = .;
+ 	LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .;
+ 	*(.data)
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch b/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a4543125c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0003-include-asm-generic-vmlinux.lds.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ 
+From 7f92adbba385a4e512abfd6633ac0f9f0cdf91f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:54:07 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] include/asm-generic: vmlinux.lds.h
+
+https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+---
+ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+index d7701d466b60..1aa33597e91e 100644
+--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
++++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@
+  */
+ #ifndef RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA
+ #define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA						\
++	. = ALIGN(8);							\
+ 	__start_ro_after_init = .;					\
+ 	*(.data..ro_after_init)						\
+ 	__end_ro_after_init = .;
+-- 
+2.24.1
+
diff --git a/package/binutils/2.33.1/0003-Revert-PR24311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch b/package/binutils/2.33.1/0003-Revert-PR24311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 046d0d6f36..0000000000
--- a/package/binutils/2.33.1/0003-Revert-PR24311-FAIL-S-records-with-constructors.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,148 +0,0 @@ 
-From 7a8213503e25998e2610d5a8c0b19eefb5e41596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 03:12:37 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Revert "PR24311, FAIL: S-records with constructors"
-
-This reverts commit ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e.
-
-Revert this patch since it prevent booting a sh4 system under
-Qemu as reported on the Binutils mailing list [1].
-This commit is not related to sh4, it's weird that it is the
-only affected architecture.
-
-[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-10/msg00105.html
-[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-11/msg00407.html
-
-Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
----
- bfd/merge.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/bfd/merge.c b/bfd/merge.c
-index 632c8523903..fb7c0858beb 100644
---- a/bfd/merge.c
-+++ b/bfd/merge.c
-@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ is_suffix (const struct sec_merge_hash_entry *A,
- 
- /* This is a helper function for _bfd_merge_sections.  It attempts to
-    merge strings matching suffixes of longer strings.  */
--static struct sec_merge_sec_info *
-+static bfd_boolean
- merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
- {
-   struct sec_merge_hash_entry **array, **a, *e;
-@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
-   amt = sinfo->htab->size * sizeof (struct sec_merge_hash_entry *);
-   array = (struct sec_merge_hash_entry **) bfd_malloc (amt);
-   if (array == NULL)
--    return NULL;
-+    return FALSE;
- 
-   for (e = sinfo->htab->first, a = array; e; e = e->next)
-     if (e->alignment)
-@@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
- 	}
-     }
-   secinfo->sec->size = size;
-+  if (secinfo->sec->alignment_power != 0)
-+    {
-+      bfd_size_type align = (bfd_size_type) 1 << secinfo->sec->alignment_power;
-+      secinfo->sec->size = (secinfo->sec->size + align - 1) & -align;
-+    }
- 
-   /* And now adjust the rest, removing them from the chain (but not hashtable)
-      at the same time.  */
-@@ -719,7 +724,7 @@ merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
- 	    e->u.index = e->u.suffix->u.index + (e->u.suffix->len - e->len);
- 	  }
-       }
--  return secinfo;
-+  return TRUE;
- }
- 
- /* This function is called once after all SEC_MERGE sections are registered
-@@ -735,8 +740,7 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
- 
-   for (sinfo = (struct sec_merge_info *) xsinfo; sinfo; sinfo = sinfo->next)
-     {
--      struct sec_merge_sec_info *secinfo;
--      bfd_size_type align;
-+      struct sec_merge_sec_info * secinfo;
- 
-       if (! sinfo->chain)
- 	continue;
-@@ -747,7 +751,6 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
-       secinfo->next = NULL;
- 
-       /* Record the sections into the hash table.  */
--      align = 1;
-       for (secinfo = sinfo->chain; secinfo; secinfo = secinfo->next)
- 	if (secinfo->sec->flags & SEC_EXCLUDE)
- 	  {
-@@ -755,25 +758,18 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
- 	    if (remove_hook)
- 	      (*remove_hook) (abfd, secinfo->sec);
- 	  }
--	else
--	  {
--	    if (!record_section (sinfo, secinfo))
--	      return FALSE;
--	    if (align)
--	      {
--		align = (bfd_size_type) 1 << secinfo->sec->alignment_power;
--		if ((secinfo->sec->size & (align - 1)) != 0)
--		  align = 0;
--	      }
--	  }
-+	else if (! record_section (sinfo, secinfo))
-+	  return FALSE;
-+
-+      if (secinfo)
-+	continue;
- 
-       if (sinfo->htab->first == NULL)
- 	continue;
- 
-       if (sinfo->htab->strings)
- 	{
--	  secinfo = merge_strings (sinfo);
--	  if (!secinfo)
-+	  if (!merge_strings (sinfo))
- 	    return FALSE;
- 	}
-       else
-@@ -793,7 +789,8 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
- 		  e->secinfo->first_str = e;
- 		  size = 0;
- 		}
--	      size = (size + e->alignment - 1) & ~((bfd_vma) e->alignment - 1);
-+	      size = (size + e->alignment - 1)
-+		     & ~((bfd_vma) e->alignment - 1);
- 	      e->u.index = size;
- 	      size += e->len;
- 	      secinfo = e->secinfo;
-@@ -801,16 +798,11 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
- 	  secinfo->sec->size = size;
- 	}
- 
--      /* If the input sections were padded according to their alignments,
--	 then pad the output too.  */
--      if (align)
--	secinfo->sec->size = (secinfo->sec->size + align - 1) & -align;
--
--      /* Finally remove all input sections which have not made it into
--	 the hash table at all.  */
--      for (secinfo = sinfo->chain; secinfo; secinfo = secinfo->next)
--	if (secinfo->first_str == NULL)
--	  secinfo->sec->flags |= SEC_EXCLUDE | SEC_KEEP;
-+	/* Finally remove all input sections which have not made it into
-+	   the hash table at all.  */
-+	for (secinfo = sinfo->chain; secinfo; secinfo = secinfo->next)
-+	  if (secinfo->first_str == NULL)
-+	    secinfo->sec->flags |= SEC_EXCLUDE | SEC_KEEP;
-     }
- 
-   return TRUE;
--- 
-2.23.0
-