On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 03:00:19PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Olof's autobuilder <bu...@lixom.net> wrote: > >> > >> Failed defconfigs: > >> powerpc.pasemi_defconfig > >> powerpc.ppc64_defconfig > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Errors: > >> > >> /work/build/batch/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S:72: Error: .localentry > >> expression for `flush_icache_range' does not evaluate to a constant > > > > This is a regression in 4.4-stable-rc, caused by the backport of commit > > 8f5f525d5b83f7d7 ("powerpc/64: Fix flush_(d|i)cache_range() called from > > modules"). > > > > The patch was also backported into v4.9-stable-rc, but did not cause > > problems there. The fixes tag suggests that the patch is needed on > > every version from 3.16 up, but apparently the fix needs to be a little > > different compared to newer kernels. > > Yeah, the auto-backport failed, and then I sent a version for 4.4 which > fixed the bug but broke other configs (big endian). > > I've asked Greg to drop it for now.
It's now dropped, thanks. greg k-h