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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PPC64 2.6.34-rc6 warning - Is this expected ?
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 15:40:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507054034.GB25173@drongo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273060251.13463.8.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 05:20:51PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:

> I built 2.6.34-rc6 with the attached Fedora Config file
> (config-2.6.33.1-19.fc13.ppc64) on my P5 Fedora Box and got the
> following warning. Is the following expected ?
> 
> CALL    arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl
> Building modules, stage 2.
> WARNING: 4 bad relocations
> c00000000007216e R_PPC64_ADDR16_HIGHEST  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
> c000000000072172 R_PPC64_ADDR16_HIGHER  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
> c00000000007217a R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
> c00000000007217e R_PPC64_ADDR16_LO  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8

No, it's not expected.  It's in iSeries code, so you could avoid it
just by disabling CONFIG_ISERIES (I don't think any distro still
supports legacy iSeries).  I'll post a patch to fix the problem
properly.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05 11:50 PPC64 2.6.34-rc6 warning - Is this expected ? Subrata Modak
2010-05-07  5:40 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2010-07-15 11:35   ` [PPC64/Power7 - 2.6.35-rc5] Bad relocation warnings while Building a CONFIG_RELOCATABLE kernel with CONFIG_ISERIES enabled Subrata Modak
2010-07-16  2:04     ` Michael Neuling
2010-07-19  8:56       ` Subrata Modak
2010-07-19  1:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-19  7:36       ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-19 11:23       ` [PPC64/Power7 - 2.6.35-rc5] Bad relocation warnings whileBuilding " Milton Miller
2010-07-19 11:35       ` Milton Miller
2010-07-19 12:00         ` Alexander Graf
2010-07-20  7:27         ` Milton Miller
2010-07-20  7:37           ` Alexander Graf

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