Patch "powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-fix-compiling-a-be-kernel-with-a-powerpc64le-toolchain.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:46:20 +1100
Subject: powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 4dc831aa88132f835cefe876aa0206977c4d7710 ]

GCC can compile with either endian, but the default ABI version is set
based on the default endianness of the toolchain. Alan Modra says:

  you need both -mbig and -mabi=elfv1 to make a powerpc64le gcc
  generate powerpc64 code

The opposite is true for powerpc64 when generating -mlittle it
requires -mabi=elfv2 to generate v2 ABI, which we were already doing.

This change adds ABI annotations together with endianness for all cases,
LE and BE. This fixes the case of building a BE kernel with a toolchain
that is LE by default.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/Makefile |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -72,8 +72,15 @@ GNUTARGET	:= powerpc
 MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mmultiple
 endif
 
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
+ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
+aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mabi=elfv2
+endif
+
 cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mlittle-endian
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
 ifneq ($(cc-name),clang)
   cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mno-strict-align
 endif
@@ -113,7 +120,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y)
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2,$(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc))
 AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2)
 else
+CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
+AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
 endif
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mcmodel=medium,$(call cc-option,-mminimal-toc))
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mno-pointers-to-nested-functions)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch
queue-4.9/powerpc-fix-compiling-a-be-kernel-with-a-powerpc64le-toolchain.patch