Matt added BPF_JIT support in commit 0ca87f05, but currently none of our
defconfigs build it. Turn that sucker on.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
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arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig
b/arch/powerpc/
If the kernel is big enough (eg. allyesconfig), the linker may need to
switch TOCs when calling from the BPF JIT code out to the external
helpers (skb_copy_bits() & bpf_internal_load_pointer_neg_helper()).
In order to do that we need to leave space after the bl for the linker
to insert a reload of
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 21:13 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:18:39PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Linker bug. That's not a sibling call, but a normal function return
> > via an out-of-line register restore function.
>
> I couldn't see how this might be occurring, then I remem
--- On Wed, 6/6/12, Steffen Rumler wrote:
> From: Steffen Rumler
> Subject: [PATCH] kernel panic during kernel module load (powerpc specific
> part)
> To: "ext Benjamin Herrenschmidt" , pau...@samba.org
> Cc: "Wrobel Heinz-R39252" , "Michael Ellerman"
> , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org"
>
>
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:18:39PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Linker bug. That's not a sibling call, but a normal function return
> via an out-of-line register restore function.
I couldn't see how this might be occurring, then I remembered the
kernel has this horrible practise of using ld -r to p
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:38:27PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 17:07 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 16:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:36 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > powerpc64-linux-ld:
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 17:07 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 16:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:36 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > >
> > > powerpc64-linux-ld:
> > > /src/next/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:189:(.text+0x89b990):
> > >
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:36:01PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 17:50 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > allyesconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > powerpc64-linux-ld: arch/powerpc/net/built
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 16:24 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 15:36 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >
> > powerpc64-linux-ld:
> > /src/next/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:189:(.text+0x89b990):
> > sibling call optimization to `_restgpr0_28' does not allow
> >
