Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

Hi H.J.,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:53:42 -0700 "H.J. Lu" [off-list ref] wrote:

Please see my enclosing email.   Is anyone from PPC community reading emails?

What you really need is an Ack from the PowerPC people for the fix you
suggested and then tha fix should go in the same series that is now
causing the failure (preferably before the problematic (for PowerPC)
patch.

For reference, the change is (white space damaged):

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b4c89a1acebb..076b3e8a849d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

@@ -365,9 +365,12 @@ SECTIONS
        DISCARDS
        /DISCARD/ : {
                *(*.EMB.apuinfo)
-               *(.glink .iplt .plt .rela* .comment)
+               *(.glink .iplt .plt .comment)
                *(.gnu.version*)
                *(.gnu.attributes)
                *(.eh_frame)
+#ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+               *(.rela*)
+#endif
        }
 }

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 03:08:19PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

What you really need is an Ack from the PowerPC people for the fix you
suggested and then tha fix should go in the same series that is now
causing the failure (preferably before the problematic (for PowerPC)
patch.

I'll zap this commit from the tip lineup. There's always another merge
window.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg

Borislav Petkov [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 03:08:19PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

quoted

What you really need is an Ack from the PowerPC people for the fix you
suggested and then tha fix should go in the same series that is now
causing the failure (preferably before the problematic (for PowerPC)
patch.

I'll zap this commit from the tip lineup. There's always another merge
window.

Or just squash the hunk Stephen posted into the commit, which is what I
thought would happen to begin with.

You can have my ack for it:

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:04:16PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

Or just squash the hunk Stephen posted into the commit, which is what I
thought would happen to begin with.

You can have my ack for it:

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

Thanks but considering how this is not really urgent stuff and it can
take its time and get some wider testing before getting upstream, I'd
prefer to delay it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:17 AM Borislav Petkov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 07:04:16PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

quoted

Or just squash the hunk Stephen posted into the commit, which is what I
thought would happen to begin with.

You can have my ack for it:

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

Thanks but considering how this is not really urgent stuff and it can
take its time and get some wider testing before getting upstream, I'd
prefer to delay it.

Skip my commit will also delay other commits since they depend on my
commit.

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H.J.