On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 10:47 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 20:53 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 15:51 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 19:24 -0800, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > > > powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling > > > > > > > > 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: > > > > powerpc-simplify-module-toc-handling.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 c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:52:22 +1100 > > > > Subject: powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling > > > > > > > > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 upstream. > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > Please drop this commit, it requires a corresponding change to depmod which we > > > need to get accepted first. > > > > > > Sorry for the churn. > > Is that specifically for ppc64el? Module loading has been completely > > broken in powerpc 64-bit kernels in Debian unstable since we got > > binutils 2.26 and these two patches certainly fixed the big-endian case > > without any need for a new kmod. > Yes, it's only required on LE. > > I'll have to defer to Alan on the details, but on BE we don't see those > relocations against .TOC. and so none of this matters. The following patch "powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26" certainly is needed for BE, so someone should send Greg a version that applies on top of 4.4 without the TOC change. (It could even be me, but my patch/compile/test cycle on powerpc is rather slow.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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