An allyesconfig build creates a .text section that is so big that the .text.init.refok and .fixup sections are too far away for the relocations to be fixed up correctly. This patch fixes that by linking all the relevent text sections for each file together.
Suggested by Paul Mackerras. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) This still leaves us with the problem that the TOC overflows. Dave, would something like this help as an alternative to the .fixup change you committed recently? -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 823a8cb..f66fa5d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ SECTIONS ALIGN_FUNCTION(); *(.text.head) _text = .; - TEXT_TEXT + *(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok) SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT KPROBES_TEXT - *(.fixup) #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 *(.got1) -- 1.5.3.5 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev