From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com (Nathan Lynch)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:47:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: vdso: work-around broken ELF toolchains in Makefile
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On 06/19/2015 07:56 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> When building the kernel with a bare-metal (ELF) toolchain, the -shared
> option may not be passed down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption
> of the vDSO image (in particular, the DYNAMIC section is omitted).

I checked arch/arm with

arm-none-eabi-gcc (Fedora 4.9.2-3.fc21) 4.9.2

and it doesn't seem to be affected.  Do you know whether the toolchain
issue is aarch64-specific?