Re: [PATCH 4.9 62/88] x86/boot/compressed: Dont declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-10T16:55:57Z

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 04:08:45PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:33:57PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> > This ends up for me in:
> >
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o: In function
> > `initialize_identity_maps':
> > pagetable.c:(.text+0x309): undefined reference to `__force_order'
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o: In function `finalize_identity_maps':
> > pagetable.c:(.text+0x41a): undefined reference to `__force_order'
> >
> >
> > pgtable_64.c doesn't exist in v4.9 for x86.
> >
> > So I guess it's not correct to remove __force_order from pagetable.c?
>
> Yes, the second __force_order thing was added by
>
> 08529078d8d9 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time")
>
> which is 4.14.
>
> Greg, pls drop this patch from the 4.9 lineup.

Now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h