From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757268AbaGACWM (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:22:12 -0400 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:58416 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbaGACWL (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:22:11 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <53B21B50.2010207@roeck-us.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:22:08 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Rothwell CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Disable RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST with PPC64 References: <1404153930-26568-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20140701105510.75718b47@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20140701105510.75718b47@canb.auug.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/30/2014 05:55 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:45:30 -0700 Guenter Roeck wrote: >> >> powerpc:allmodconfig has been failing for some time with the following >> error. >> >> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages: >> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1312: Error: attempt to move .org backwards >> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1 >> >> A number of attempts to fix the problem by moving around code have been >> unsuccessful and resulted in failed builds for some configurations and >> the discovery of toolchain bugs. >> >> Fix the problem by disabling RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST builds instead. s/Fix/Work around/ would probably be a better here. >> While this is less than perfect, it avoids substantial code changes >> which would otherwise be necessary just to make COMPILE_TEST builds >> happy and might have undesired side effects. >> >> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > > I'll dump this in my "fixes" tree today and see how it goes. > Would be great. Note that allyescconfig still fails with relocation errors after this patch has been applied. Thanks, Guenter