From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932498AbcHISpe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:45:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37746 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932234AbcHISp3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:45:29 -0400 Message-ID: <1470768325.3551.45.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: c6x linker issue on linux-next-20160808 + some linker table work From: Mark Salter To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Guenter Roeck , Aurelien Jacquiot , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arch , "H. Peter Anvin" , Josh Poimboeuf Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:45:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160809184023.GD3296@wotan.suse.de> References: <741c0f4d-bd9c-f28a-12d1-64bb483c6998@roeck-us.net> <1470762240.3551.42.camel@redhat.com> <20160809184023.GD3296@wotan.suse.de> Organization: Red Hat, Inc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 20:40 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:04:00PM -0400, Mark Salter wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 06:37 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > > On 08/09/2016 01:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Mark, Aurelien, > > > > > > > > I've run into a linker (ld) issue caused by the linker table work I've > > > > been working on [0]. I looked into this and for the life of me, I > > > > cannot comprehend what the problem is, so was hoping you folks might > > > > be able to chime in. > > > > > > > For reference, the error is > > > > > > c6x-elf-ld: drivers/built-in.o: SB-relative relocation but __c6xabi_DSBT_BASE not defined > > > c6x-elf-ld: drivers/built-in.o: SB-relative relocation but __c6xabi_DSBT_BASE not defined > > DSBT is a reference to the no-MMU userspace ABI used by c6x. The kernel shouldn't > > be referencing DSBT base. The -mno-dsbt gcc flag should prevent it. > I see -mno-dsbt on arch/c6x/Makefile already -- however at link time this is > an issue if linker tables are used it seems. Do you have any other recommendation? > I'm looking at it now... > I will note that it would seem that even i386 and x86-64 compiler/binutils seem > to have relocation issues on older compiler/binutils, for instance: > > gcc-4.7.2 > binutils-2.22  > > Yields: > > x86_64:allyesconfig || x86_64:allmodconfig > Invalid absolute R_X86_64_64 relocation: __per_cpu_load  > > i386:defconfig > Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: __vvar_page > > This issue on x86 is not observed as so far as of gcc 5.2.1 > and binutils-2.26.1. > > hpa -- if you can think of a work around for this for older compilers/linkers > let me know... unless we are OK to increase the requirements for x86. > >   Luis