3.5.7.27 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20Bie=C3=9Fmann?= <andr...@biessmann.de>

commit d617b338bbfdd77e9cbd8e7dc949cee3dd73d575 upstream.

This patch fixes following error (for big kernels):

---8<---
arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.o: In function `no_tag_table':
(.init.text+0x44): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against 
symbol `panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o
arch/avr32/kernel/built-in.o: In function `bad_return':
(.ex.text+0x236): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against symbol 
`panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o
--->8---

It comes up when the kernel increases and 'panic()' is too far away to fit in
the +/- 2MiB range. Which in turn issues from the 21-bit displacement in
'br{cond4}' mnemonic which is one of the two ways to do jumps (rjmp has just
10-bit displacement and therefore a way smaller range). This fact was stated
before in 8d29b7b9f81d6b83d869ff054e6c189d6da73f1f.
One solution to solve this is to add a local storage for the symbol address
and just load the $pc with that value.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andr...@biessmann.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtv...@samfundet.no>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnem...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
 arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S    | 5 ++++-
 arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S b/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
index d36d865..2ffc298 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
+++ b/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ init_sr:
        .long   0x007f0000      /* Supervisor mode, everything masked */
 stack_addr:
        .long   init_thread_union
+panic_addr:
+       .long   panic
 
 no_tag_table:
        sub     r12, pc, (. - 2f)
-       bral    panic
+       /* branch to panic() which can be far away with that construct */
+       lddpc   pc, panic_addr
 2:     .asciz  "Boot loader didn't provide correct magic number\n"
diff --git a/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S b/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
index df28841..55da272 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
+++ b/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
@@ -399,9 +399,10 @@ handle_critical:
        /* We should never get here... */
 bad_return:
        sub     r12, pc, (. - 1f)
-       bral    panic
+       lddpc   pc, 2f
        .align  2
 1:     .asciz  "Return from critical exception!"
+2:     .long   panic
 
        .align  1
 do_bus_error_write:
-- 
1.8.3.2

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