Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:29:29 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [PPC64] Remove another fixed address constraint |
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On Mon, Jul 25, David Gibson wrote:
> Presently the LparMap, one of the structures the kernel shares with > the legacy iSeries hypervisor has a fixed offset address in head.S. > This patch changes this so the LparMap is a normally initialized > structure, without fixed address. This allows us to use macros to > compute some of the values in the structure, which wasn't previously > possible because the assembler always uses signed-% which gets the > wrong answers for the computations in question. > > Unfortunately, a gcc bug means that doing this requires another > structure (hvReleaseData) to be initialized in asm instead of C, but > on the whole the result is cleaner than before.
I think this change caused this compile error in rc4:
{standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:254: Error: value of 4000000000002080 too large for field of 4 bytes at 0000000000002108 make[1]: *** [arch/ppc64/kernel/LparData.o] Error 1
binutils-2.16.91.0.2 gcc-4.0.2_20050727
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