This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain
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:
powerpc-fix-compiling-a-be-kernel-with-a-powerpc64le-toolchain.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 foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:46:20 +1100
Subject: powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4dc831aa88132f835cefe876aa0206977c4d7710 ]
GCC can compile with either endian, but the default ABI version is set
based on the default endianness of the toolchain. Alan Modra says:
you need both -mbig and -mabi=elfv1 to make a powerpc64le gcc
generate powerpc64 code
The opposite is true for powerpc64 when generating -mlittle it
requires -mabi=elfv2 to generate v2 ABI, which we were already doing.
This change adds ABI annotations together with endianness for all cases,
LE and BE. This fixes the case of building a BE kernel with a toolchain
that is LE by default.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -72,8 +72,15 @@ GNUTARGET := powerpc
MULTIPLEWORD := -mmultiple
endif
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
+ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
+aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -mabi=elfv2
+endif
+
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -mlittle-endian
+cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
ifneq ($(cc-name),clang)
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -mno-strict-align
endif
@@ -113,7 +120,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y)
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2,$(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc))
AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2)
else
+CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
+AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
endif
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mcmodel=medium,$(call cc-option,-mminimal-toc))
CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mno-pointers-to-nested-functions)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-initialize-isav3-mmu-registers-before-setting-partition-table.patch
queue-4.9/powerpc-fix-compiling-a-be-kernel-with-a-powerpc64le-toolchain.patch