[patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] arm64: vdso: fix build error when switching from LE to BE

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From: Arun Chandran <achandran@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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commit 1915e2ad1cf548217c963121e4076b3d44dd0169 upstream.

Building a kernel with CPU_BIG_ENDIAN fails if there are stale objects
from a !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN build. Due to a missing FORCE prerequisite on an
if_changed rule in the VDSO Makefile, we attempt to link a stale LE
object into the new BE kernel.

According to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt, FORCE is required for
if_changed rules and forgetting it is a common mistake, so fix it by
'Forcing' the build of vdso. This patch fixes build errors like these:

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arun Chandran <achandran@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 6d20b7d162d8..a268a9af0c2d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $(obj)/vdso-offsets.h: $(obj)/vdso.so.dbg FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,vdsosym)
 
 # Assembly rules for the .S files
-$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S
+$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S FORCE
 	$(call if_changed_dep,vdsoas)
 
 # Actual build commands
-- 
2.3.5

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