Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Disable RELOCATABLE for COMPILE_TEST with PPC64

[Guenter Roeck]

On 06/30/2014 05:55 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:45:30 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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