Hi all, On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 09:33:07 -0700 Peter Collingbourne wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:25 AM Will Deacon wrote: > > > > From 71c67a31f09fa8fdd1495dffd96a5f0d4cef2ede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Will Deacon > > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 12:48:33 +0100 > > Subject: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Fix infinite Kconfig recursion on PPC > > > > Commit 5cf896fb6be3 ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with > > RELR relocations") introduced CONFIG_TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR, which checks > > for RELR support in the toolchain as part of the kernel configuration. > > During this procedure, "$(NM)" is invoked to see if it supports the new > > relocation format, however PowerPC conditionally overrides this variable > > in the architecture Makefile in order to pass '--synthetic' when > > targetting PPC64. > > > > This conditional override causes Kconfig to recurse forever, since > > CONFIG_TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR cannot be determined without $(NM) being > > defined, but that in turn depends on CONFIG_PPC64: > > > > $ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- > > scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig > > scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig > > scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig > > [...] > > > > In this particular case, it looks like PowerPC may be able to pass > > '--synthetic' unconditionally to nm or even drop it altogether. While > > that is being resolved, let's just bodge the RELR check by picking up > > $(NM) directly from the environment in whatever state it happens to be > > in. > > > > Cc: Peter Collingbourne > > Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell > > Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon > > Tested-by: Peter Collingbourne > Reviewed-by: Peter Collingbourne Thanks for sorting this out (even temporarily). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell