Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:22:08 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Disable RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST with PPC64 |
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On 06/30/2014 05:55 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:45:30 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> 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 <linux@roeck-us.net> > > 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
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