On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:19:32PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 08:13:13AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 05:46:52PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >> > Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> > > Hi Greg, Sasha, and Michael,
> >> > >
> >> > > Commit d79976918852 ("powerpc/64: Add UADDR64 relocation support") fixes
> >> > > a boot failure with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y kernels linked with recent
> >> > > versions of ld.lld [1]. Additionally, it resolves a separate boot
> >> > > failure that Paul Menzel reported [2] with ld.lld 13.0.0. Is this a
> >> > > reasonable backport for 5.17 and 5.15? It applies cleanly, resolves both
> >> > > problems, and does not appear to cause any other issues in my testing
> >> > > for both trees but I was curious what Michael's opinion was, as I am far
> >> > > from a PowerPC expert.
> >> > >
> >> > > This change does apply cleanly to 5.10 (I did not try earlier branches)
> >> > > but there are other changes needed for ld.lld to link CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
> >> > > kernels in that branch so to avoid any regressions, I think it is safe
> >> > > to just focus on 5.15 and 5.17.
> >> >
> >> > I considered tagging it for stable, but I wanted it to get a bit of
> >> > testing first, it's a reasonably big patch.
> >> >
> >> > I think we're reasonably confident it doesn't introduce any new bugs,
> >> > but more testing time is always good.
> >> >
> >> > So I guess I'd be inclined to wait another week or so before requesting
> >> > a stable backport?
> >>
> >> Sure, thanks for the response! I'll ping this thread on Monday, May 2nd,
> >> so that we have two more RC releases to try and flush out any lingering
> >> issues. If you do receive any reports of regressions, please let me
> >> know.
> >
> > I decided to wait an extra day just to give people the opportunity to
> > install -rc5 and run it through their tests. I have not heard of any
> > reports yet, are there any further objections?
>
> No objection.
Now queued up!
