Re: powerpc/ppc64: Allow allmodconfig to build (finally !)

On 05/13/2014 08:34 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

Hi Guenter,

On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:17:49 -0700 Guenter Roeck [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 07:16:41PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 17:28 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

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After applying this patch, I get

arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:269: Error: operand out of range
(0x000000000000814c is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007ffc)
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:729: Error: operand out of range
(0x000000000000814c is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007ffc)

with powerpc:defconfig, powerpc:allmodconfig, powerpc:cell_defconfig, and
powerpc:maple_defconfig.

This is on top of v3.15-rc5. Any idea what is going on ?

Compiler is powerpc64-poky-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.7.2 (from poky 1.4.0-1).

Interesting... works with all my test configs using 4.7.3...

I don't have my tree at hand right now, I'll check what that means
tomorrow see if I can find a workaround.

It works for me with gcc 4.8.2 (build from yocto 1.6.0).

Is asking people to use gcc 4.7.3 or later acceptable ?

OK, this appears to be an assembler bug.

$ cat test.s
	.text
x:
	.pushsection	b, "a"
	beq y
	.popsection
	.=0x80000
y:
$ /opt/cross/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-as --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.22
This assembler was configured for a target of `powerpc64-linux'.
$ /opt/cross/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-as -o test.o test.s
test.s: Assembler messages:
test.s:4: Error: operand out of range (0x0000000000080000 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007ffc)
$ /opt/cross/gcc-4.8.1-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-as --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.23.52.20130512
This assembler was configured for a target of `powerpc64-linux'.
$ /opt/cross/gcc-4.8.1-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-as -o test.o test.s
(no error)

Alan, can you shed light on when it was fixed?

Hi Stephen,

any idea what might cause this one, by any chance ?

arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `exc_debug_crit_book3e':
(.text+0x165ee): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI against symbol `interrupt_base_book3e' defined in .text section in arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `exc_debug_crit_book3e':
(.text+0x16602): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI against symbol `interrupt_end_book3e' defined in .text section in arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `exc_debug_debug_book3e':

I see this if I try to build powerpc:ppc64e_defconfig or powerpc:chroma_defconfig
with gcc 4.8.2 and binutils 2.24.

Thanks,
Guenter