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From: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 4.9.0 build error on Alpha
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:09:14 -0600
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To: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, linux-alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>, Debian Alpha Mailing List <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:38:51AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 09:20:37AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > With '.section .alphalib,"ax"' added to the top of "arch/alpha/lib/*.S"
> > (below opening comment block, if present, but prior to any include directives),
> > and the modified patch to "arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S", I now get
> > multiple relocation errors as follows:
> > 
> >   LD      init/built-in.o
> > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat':
> > (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxcpy' defined in .text section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(stxcpy.o)
> > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strncat.o): In function `strncat':
> > (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxncpy' defined in .text section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(stxncpy.o)
> > drivers/built-in.o: In function `radeon_cs_parser_init.part.4':
> > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.o:(.text+0x119bd0): relocation truncated to fit: BRSGP against symbol `__copy_user' defined in .alphalib section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(copy_user.o)
> 
> Try changing the #ifdef MODULE above __copy_tofrom_user_nocheck to
> #if 1 in uaccess.h.   That should fix the copy_user relocation errors.

Have accumulated enough patches that I'm running a "from scratch" build
rather than trusting all the dependency checking.  It will be sometime
next year before I report back :-).

--Bob