Hi H.J.,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:53:42 -0700 "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please see my enclosing email.   Is anyone from PPC community reading emails?

What you really need is an Ack from the PowerPC people for the fix you
suggested and then tha fix should go in the same series that is now
causing the failure (preferably before the problematic (for PowerPC)
patch.

For reference, the change is (white space damaged):

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b4c89a1acebb..076b3e8a849d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -365,9 +365,12 @@ SECTIONS
        DISCARDS
        /DISCARD/ : {
                *(*.EMB.apuinfo)
-               *(.glink .iplt .plt .rela* .comment)
+               *(.glink .iplt .plt .comment)
                *(.gnu.version*)
                *(.gnu.attributes)
                *(.eh_frame)
+#ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+               *(.rela*)
+#endif
        }
 }

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell