From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751797AbaELEw1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 00:52:27 -0400 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:56766 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbaELEw0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 00:52:26 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <5370537F.8020901@roeck-us.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:52:15 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras 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> In-Reply-To: <1399867920.17624.73.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/11/2014 09:12 PM, 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. > Oh well, it was worth a try. Can you give me an example for a failing configuration ? Thanks, Guenter