From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752324AbaELFhS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 01:37:18 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:38519 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505AbaELFhQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 01:37:16 -0400 Message-ID: <1399873020.17624.79.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix "attempt to move .org backwards" error (again) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:37:00 +1000 In-Reply-To: <1399867920.17624.73.camel@pasglop> References: <1399680478-4970-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1399867920.17624.73.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.11.90 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Cheers, Ben.