Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-24 Thread Chen Gang
On 2013年03月25日 08:03, Michael Neuling wrote: > > benh asked paulus or sfr to send in while he was away. > > So please send your signed off by now (if you can), or someone is going > to rewrite it, sent it upstream bypassing you. > > Mikey > > thanks, I will send patch now. :-) -- Chen

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Neuling
Chen Gang wrote: > On 2013年03月22日 06:54, Michael Neuling wrote: > > This is great, thanks a lot. > > > > If you want this to be picked up by the maintainer, you'll need to add > > your signed-off-by. > > > > The signed-off-by is to indicate that your happy for it to be included > > and that y

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-22 Thread Chen Gang F T
On 2013年03月23日 03:17, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > allmodconfig is creating config combinations that don't > happen in a normal build (at least currently)-- 64-bit build > that enables EPAPR_PARAVIRT but not PPC_BOOK3E_64. if it should not happen. can we add dependency to let it will never h

RE: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-22 Thread Yoder Stuart-B08248
org; > imun...@au1.ibm.com; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; > linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with > allmodconfig > > Chen Gang F T wrote: > > > > > it seems: > > only move slb_miss_realmode to

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-21 Thread Chen Gang
On 2013年03月22日 06:54, Michael Neuling wrote: > This is great, thanks a lot. > > If you want this to be picked up by the maintainer, you'll need to add > your signed-off-by. > > The signed-off-by is to indicate that your happy for it to be included > and that you're legally allowed to do so. Se

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-21 Thread Chen Gang
On 2013年03月21日 20:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:26 +0800, Chen Gang F T wrote: >> > it seems: >> > only move slb_miss_realmode to the end, can fix this issue without >> > negative effect. > Thanks. I'm currently on vacation, I'll have a closer look when I'm bac

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Neuling
Chen Gang F T wrote: > > it seems: > only move slb_miss_realmode to the end, can fix this issue without > negative effect. So this works but uncovers a new bug. Stuart: if you apply this patch allmodconfig now gets this build error on linux-next. arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In func

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Neuling
Chen Gang wrote: > Hello All: > > summary: > the root cause is no enough room in exception area (0x5500 -- 0x7000). > > it is caused by the patches "for saving/restre PPR": > they consumed much space of this area (0x5500 -- 0x7000). > for pseries_defconfig and ppc64_defconfig, it is

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:26 +0800, Chen Gang F T wrote: > it seems: > only move slb_miss_realmode to the end, can fix this issue without > negative effect. Thanks. I'm currently on vacation, I'll have a closer look when I'm back unless Stephen or Paulus wants to shoot that to Linus while I'

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-20 Thread Chen Gang
Hello All: summary: the root cause is no enough room in exception area (0x5500 -- 0x7000). it is caused by the patches "for saving/restre PPR": they consumed much space of this area (0x5500 -- 0x7000). for pseries_defconfig and ppc64_defconfig, it is still ok. but for allmodconfig

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-14 Thread Chen Gang
于 2013年03月15日 12:52, Michael Neuling 写道: > Yep it's a known problem but no one has bothered to fix it since it > doesn't happen in a config that anyone cares about like > pseries_defconfig and ppc64_defconfig. We've been moving code around in > this area a lot recently hence the breakage. > > It

Re: [Suggestion] PowerPC: kernel: cross compiling issue with allmodconfig

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Neuling
> do next-* tree support powerpc POWER7 with allmodconfig ? > > I met an issue, can we bear it (or I need additional trying) ? > > > Compiling: > make V=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W ARCH=powerpc allmodconfig > set cpu type POWER7 in menuconfig. > set cross-compiler in menuconfig. > unde