From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ip4-83-240-67-251.cust.nbox.cz ([83.240.67.251]:51287 "EHLO ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752877AbbEDMiI (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 08:38:08 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arun Chandran , Will Deacon , Guenter Roeck , Jiri Slaby Subject: [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] arm64: vdso: fix build error when switching from LE to BE Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 14:37:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1430743082-6957-34-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <1430743082-6957-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> References: <1430743082-6957-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Arun Chandran This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 1915e2ad1cf548217c963121e4076b3d44dd0169 upstream. Building a kernel with CPU_BIG_ENDIAN fails if there are stale objects from a !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN build. Due to a missing FORCE prerequisite on an if_changed rule in the VDSO Makefile, we attempt to link a stale LE object into the new BE kernel. According to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt, FORCE is required for if_changed rules and forgetting it is a common mistake, so fix it by 'Forcing' the build of vdso. This patch fixes build errors like these: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o Tested-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Arun Chandran Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile index 6d20b7d162d8..a268a9af0c2d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $(obj)/vdso-offsets.h: $(obj)/vdso.so.dbg FORCE $(call if_changed,vdsosym) # Assembly rules for the .S files -$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S +$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,vdsoas) # Actual build commands -- 2.3.5