From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:23:13 -0800 (PST)
> There has to be a nicer way to do this. In fact I think I
> just figured out one such technique.
>
> The whole reason we need these .fixup sections is to encode
> a move of -EFAULT into some register, and a cont
From: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +1100
> Dave, would something like this help as an alternative to the .fixup
> change you committed recently?
I tried it, doesn't help:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `context_switch':
/home/davem/src/GIT/sparc-2.6/kernel/
From: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +1100
> 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
>
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
