Please ignore this as this turned out some unclean bits rendered
the result unstable. It is now passed the complication testing. 

----- Original Message -----

From: "CAI Qian" <redacted>
To: "Mihai Caraman" <redacted>, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel" <redacted>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:33:19 AM
Subject: kernel compilation failure on power7 system

Stable kernel 3.7.1 failure to compile on power7 system here,

arch/powerpc/kvm/built-in.o: In function `hdec_soon':
/root/linux-stable/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S:1068:
undefined reference to `PACA_SPRG3'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

reverted this commit fixed the problem,
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0127262c01f0beb485f917c720d1d95d165dfdbf
[PATCH] powerpc: Restore VDSO information on critical exception om
 BookE

Critical exception on 64-bit booke uses user-visible SPRG3 as
scratch.
Restore VDSO information in SPRG3 on exception prolog.

Use a common sprg3 field in PACA for all powerpc64 architectures.
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Used this config - http://people.redhat.com/qcai/stable/config-ppc

system information here,
# cat /proc/device-tree/model
IBM,8231-E2B

CAI Qian
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