This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 9122/1: select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-9122-1-select-have_futex_cmpxchg.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9d417cbe36eee7afdd85c2e871685f8dab7c2dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:25:59 +0100 Subject: ARM: 9122/1: select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9d417cbe36eee7afdd85c2e871685f8dab7c2dba upstream. tglx notes: This function [futex_detect_cmpxchg] is only needed when an architecture has to runtime discover whether the CPU supports it or not. ARM has unconditional support for this, so the obvious thing to do is the below. Fixes linkage failure from Clang randconfigs: kernel/futex.o:(.text.fixup+0x5c): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.init.text' and boot failures for CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/325 Comments from Nick Desaulniers: See-also: 03b8c7b623c8 ("futex: Allow architectures to skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test") Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.14+ Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ config ARM select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if (!XIP_KERNEL) select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if (!THUMB2_KERNEL) select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL) + select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG if FUTEX select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if (PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7)) select HAVE_IDE if PCI || ISA || PCMCIA Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/elfcore-correct-reference-to-config_uml.patch queue-4.4/arm-9122-1-select-have_futex_cmpxchg.patch