From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760080AbaGDTvh (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:51:37 -0400 Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:62954 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759706AbaGDTvg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:51:36 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 108.223.40.66 Message-ID: <53B705C7.9090208@roeck-us.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:51:35 -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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, 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> In-Reply-To: <1404153930-26568-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> 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 ping ... Guenter On 06/30/2014 11:45 AM, 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. > 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 > --- > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig > index bd6dd6e..fefe7c8 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig > @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ config KEXEC > config CRASH_DUMP > bool "Build a kdump crash kernel" > depends on PPC64 || 6xx || FSL_BOOKE || (44x && !SMP) > - select RELOCATABLE if PPC64 || 44x || FSL_BOOKE > + select RELOCATABLE if (PPC64 && !COMPILE_TEST) || 44x || FSL_BOOKE > help > Build a kernel suitable for use as a kdump capture kernel. > The same kernel binary can be used as production kernel and dump > @@ -1017,6 +1017,7 @@ endmenu > if PPC64 > config RELOCATABLE > bool "Build a relocatable kernel" > + depends on !COMPILE_TEST > select NONSTATIC_KERNEL > help > This builds a kernel image that is capable of running anywhere >