This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled avr32: fix out-of-range jump in large kernels to the 3.12-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: avr32-fix-out-of-range-jump-in-large-kernels.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d617b338bbfdd77e9cbd8e7dc949cee3dd73d575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:31:04 +0200 Subject: avr32: fix out-of-range jump in large kernels From: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d617b338bbfdd77e9cbd8e7dc949cee3dd73d575 upstream. This patch fixes following error (for big kernels): ---8<--- arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.o: In function `no_tag_table': (.init.text+0x44): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against symbol `panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o arch/avr32/kernel/built-in.o: In function `bad_return': (.ex.text+0x236): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against symbol `panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o --->8--- It comes up when the kernel increases and 'panic()' is too far away to fit in the +/- 2MiB range. Which in turn issues from the 21-bit displacement in 'br{cond4}' mnemonic which is one of the two ways to do jumps (rjmp has just 10-bit displacement and therefore a way smaller range). This fact was stated before in 8d29b7b9f81d6b83d869ff054e6c189d6da73f1f. One solution to solve this is to add a local storage for the symbol address and just load the $pc with that value. Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S | 5 ++++- arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S +++ b/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S @@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ init_sr: .long 0x007f0000 /* Supervisor mode, everything masked */ stack_addr: .long init_thread_union +panic_addr: + .long panic no_tag_table: sub r12, pc, (. - 2f) - bral panic + /* branch to panic() which can be far away with that construct */ + lddpc pc, panic_addr 2: .asciz "Boot loader didn't provide correct magic number\n" --- a/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S +++ b/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S @@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ handle_critical: /* We should never get here... */ bad_return: sub r12, pc, (. - 1f) - bral panic + lddpc pc, 2f .align 2 1: .asciz "Return from critical exception!" +2: .long panic .align 1 do_bus_error_write: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/avr32-fix-out-of-range-jump-in-large-kernels.patch queue-3.12/avr32-setup-crt-for-early-panic.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html