From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756836AbcHCHyE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 03:54:04 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([217.72.192.73]:49654 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755994AbcHCHx3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2016 03:53:29 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Stephen Rothwell , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Fengguang Wu , Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: powerpc allyesconfig / allmodconfig linux-next next-20160729 - next-20160729 build failures Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 09:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: <1944325.MtNrGQyQle@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-31-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160803102324.6372e66a@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20160802220243.GK3296@wotan.suse.de> <20160803102324.6372e66a@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pifU3YoFrQu1EFRXNgPRtUYUDqnbszKz82nGOnNX4R0Z3GuBY1F LLXEGf5sQYhtpR8lWe6s+1JhxWO+ETxAndsBES6YkFpZmVSeDuB42uS0Uz4Dc7lmaziFQdW kFCLPKFGmW77G27r3f5idCpXFCSFdVUk4zyogHmPS9exGqrNxZ/AJnBgMTY4LMdmnyX3NKi kmYqg3n0WsWi9xRZak/CQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:mtAFaC0y9Vo=:aYyIsvdPWqAkofap/fQoZQ a1U90LJUZSAOx/gOhaIlDBiZRKUJJ4fPqje9XSDgOoo6TtQnrXdpFBeo9/Ii9ZqnU4f+YbEXN DqgetPObYq+gDg3iyvSAE3RHK2LYy718Q/TxpGu6y3xN27/D5jcfZSZBdgpATobxZJYYwIsoY TpI6EMYvhsmii0YDc2cdnife7kuK7GUbypa21vWIJJyD3y2DUx9+wDZ84qh40IN3EK7bdR94N S11AFSnN4OxNxJk+UQI41ki+XVgR2ass1Upz7DlYREB8y7gDFvStOGLNFekKFaa+ljanVTKpi aZNyBEX9lu89BwsfmwIOkaywmqPsdchXVTsIuLuJh/K4OGp+2niiDx3FtoCl3/GJ4AJwMfG1L VT9giNEdS+kuPTs6SrJYMlcDIHbi8LnR7tphOeRDZW7Y9z+6ajnTLfzPvyD9W99RgPa6SqMDs uQg6DEejiL7KRBANoJKNSiAIRW4VwQPyZncA0ntCjY+KbzNh/fHRRRtAMgdKqoitFDATli28Q K0Y7C5QNJ631tp9UaxQ6S2e04ZRs7wMNq/p2wnYR4bf6KaNSoWVXIqebQKYJJokrtCBKRfrLq Cd+mynGHeGGxH7YUPqgMqX65X6RmX62/bK6CYf7ycHX8L4PBXiVa6w6/RVRqcPoeKwME/+nBI r8ipTEZ0xVDfq0qQC2UyZNdCbzYlqdovPVH4XsXBH52yToGcrDo1BopIelRM+dMFwvcQbOn/D tNYN+RiwU1BYk4Og Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 10:23:24 AM CEST Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Luis, > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 00:02:43 +0200 "Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote: > > > > Thanks for the confirmation. For how long is it known this is broken? > > Does anyone care and fix these ? Or is this best effort? > > This has been broken for many years > > I have a couple of times almost fixed it, but it requires that we > change from using "ld -r" to build the built-in.o objects and some > changes to the powerpc head.S code ... I will give it another shot now > that the merge window is almost over (and linux-next goes into its > quieter time). Using a different way to link the kernel would also help us with the remaining allyesconfig problem on ARM, as the problem is only in 'ld -r' not producing trampolines for symbols that later cannot get them any more. It would probably also help building with ld.gold, which is currently not working. What is your suggested alternative? Arnd