Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Revert removing of _INIT_GLOBAL(), _STATIC() and _INIT_STATIC()

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:05:55 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 20:12 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

quoted

I wanted to test some new ftrace code on my PASemi electra powerpc box.
But unfortunately it failed to build. It failed with this:

  LD      init/built-in.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o:arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:874:
  relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1c90
Makefile:864: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed

Weird ... what are your gcc and binutils versions ? Smells like a
toolchain issue to me but I need to dig a bit more. Doesn't hit any
of my test configs here.

I built it from scratch from the mainline source repos.

dist-ppc-gcc (GCC) 4.6.0
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21
Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `powerpc64-unknown-linux'.


-- Steve