From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.active-venture.com (mail.active-venture.com [67.228.131.205]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5791414007F for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:40 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <53705E93.803@roeck-us.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 22:39:31 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix "attempt to move .org backwards" error (again) References: <1399680478-4970-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1399867920.17624.73.camel@pasglop> <1399873020.17624.79.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1399873020.17624.79.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 05/11/2014 10:37 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 14:12 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 17:07 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>> Commit 4e243b7 (powerpc: Fix "attempt to move .org backwards" error) fixes the >>> allyesconfig build by moving machine_check_common to a different location. >>> While this fixes most of the errors, both allmodconfig and allyesconfig still >>> fail as follows. >>> >>> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1315: Error: attempt to move .org backwards >>> >>> Fix by moving machine_check_common after the offending address. >> >> This suffers from the same problem as previous attempts, on some of my >> test configs I get: >> >> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o:(__ftr_alt_97+0xb0): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1c90 >> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 >> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 >> >> IE, it breaks currently working configs. >> >> So we need to move more things around and I haven't had a chance to >> sort it out. > > Ok, I think I sorted it out for now. It's a mess and likely to break > again until we do something more drastic like moving everything that's > after 0x8000 to a separate file but for now that will do. Patch on its > way, I'll also shoot it to Linus today along with a few other things. > Great, thanks a lot! Guenter