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.

Can you test the attached config with this toolchain and see if you get
the same build bug.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/x86_64-gcc-4.6.3-nolibc_powerpc64-linux.tar.bz2


Thanks!

-- Steve