Re: linux-next: build failure in the powerpc allyesconfig build

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Dec 05 2016 - 00:24:38 EST


Hi all,

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:22:04 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After mergeing everything but Andrew's tree, today's linux-next build
> (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
>
> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xc000000000000000 out of range in relative mode
>
> I have no idea what caused this, so I have left the powerpc allyesconfig
> build broken for now.

Just as a data point, I tried reverting commit

dadc4a1bb9f0 ("powerpc/64: Fix placement of .text to be immediately following .head.text")

but that did not help.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell