This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: .its targets depend on vmlinux to the 4.9-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: mips-.its-targets-depend-on-vmlinux.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bcd7c45e0d5a82be9a64b90050f0e09d41a50758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:02:08 -0700 Subject: MIPS: .its targets depend on vmlinux From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> commit bcd7c45e0d5a82be9a64b90050f0e09d41a50758 upstream. The .its targets require information about the kernel binary, such as its entry point, which is extracted from the vmlinux ELF. We therefore require that the ELF is built before the .its files are generated. Declare this requirement in the Makefile such that make will ensure this is always the case, otherwise in corner cases we can hit issues as the .its is generated with an incorrect (either invalid or stale) entry point. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: cf2a5e0bb4c6 ("MIPS: Support generating Flattened Image Trees (.itb)") Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16179/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/boot/Makefile | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/boot/Makefile @@ -128,19 +128,19 @@ quiet_cmd_cpp_its_S = ITS $@ -DADDR_BITS=$(ADDR_BITS) \ -DADDR_CELLS=$(itb_addr_cells) -$(obj)/vmlinux.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S $(VMLINUX) FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_its_S,none,vmlinux.bin) -$(obj)/vmlinux.gz.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux.gz.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S $(VMLINUX) FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_its_S,gzip,vmlinux.bin.gz) -$(obj)/vmlinux.bz2.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux.bz2.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S $(VMLINUX) FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_its_S,bzip2,vmlinux.bin.bz2) -$(obj)/vmlinux.lzma.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux.lzma.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S $(VMLINUX) FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_its_S,lzma,vmlinux.bin.lzma) -$(obj)/vmlinux.lzo.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S FORCE +$(obj)/vmlinux.lzo.its: $(srctree)/arch/mips/$(PLATFORM)/vmlinux.its.S $(VMLINUX) FORCE $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_its_S,lzo,vmlinux.bin.lzo) quiet_cmd_itb-image = ITB $@ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mips-.its-targets-depend-on-vmlinux.patch queue-4.9/mips-fix-bnezc-jialc-return-address-calculation.patch