On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 20:03 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> ping ... >> >> Ben, I know this is not perfect, but on the other side it is simple >> and would be easy to backport. With this in place, a complete/clean >> fix would not be as urgent. Any chance to get it applied ? > > Yes, that definitely helps, I'll include it as a band aid. > > Cheers, > Ben. > >> Nick, this doesn't fix the allyesconfig build - it still fails with >> relocation errors. But it does fix the allmodconfig build. >> >> Thanks, >> Guenter >> >> On 06/30/2014 11:45 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> > powerpc:allmodconfig has been failing for some time with the following >> > error. >> > >> > arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages: >> > arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1312: Error: attempt to move .org >> > backwards >> > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1 >> > >> > A number of attempts to fix the problem by moving around code have been >> > unsuccessful and resulted in failed builds for some configurations and >> > the discovery of toolchain bugs. >> > >> > Fix the problem by disabling RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST builds instead. >> > While this is less than perfect, it avoids substantial code changes >> > which would otherwise be necessary just to make COMPILE_TEST builds >> > happy and might have undesired side effects. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> >> > --- >> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 ++- >> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig >> > index bd6dd6e..fefe7c8 100644 >> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig >> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig >> > @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ config KEXEC >> > config CRASH_DUMP >> > bool "Build a kdump crash kernel" >> > depends on PPC64 || 6xx || FSL_BOOKE || (44x && !SMP) >> > - select RELOCATABLE if PPC64 || 44x || FSL_BOOKE >> > + select RELOCATABLE if (PPC64 && !COMPILE_TEST) || 44x || FSL_BOOKE >> > help >> > Build a kernel suitable for use as a kdump capture kernel. >> > The same kernel binary can be used as production kernel and dump >> > @@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@ endmenu >> > if PPC64 >> > config RELOCATABLE >> > bool "Build a relocatable kernel" >> > + depends on !COMPILE_TEST >> > select NONSTATIC_KERNEL >> > help >> > This builds a kernel image that is capable of running anywhere >> > >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > Thanks for applying the patch. Works for me too.Sorry about the late reply working on other build issues and fix me messages. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/