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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5sub1 0/8] arm64: split linear and kernel mappings
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:40:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160215134009.GB6298@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C1D2CF.1010108@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:29:51PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >On 12 February 2016 at 21:10, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail•com> wrote:
> >>On 12/02/16 20:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>On 12 February 2016 at 20:45, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail•com>
> >>>>I bisected linux-next (20160212) with the following error on booting with
> >>>>an
> >>>>initramfs:
> >>>>   Failed to execute /init (error -8)
> >>>>   request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> >>>>   Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
> >>>>   request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> >>>>   Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
> >>>>   Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init=
> >>>>option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init..
> >>>>
> >>>>I tracked down the error to patch 7 of this series. But I realized that
> >>>>patch 7 does not compile, but from patch 8 onwards I observe the error.
> >>>>
> >
> >As far as this failure is concerned, I managed to reproduce an error
> >with patch #7 and not #8 applied, involving out of range kvm symbols
> >at link time. This is reproducible with GCC 4.8 but not GCC 4.9 or
> >later. Is this what you were seeing as well? Or is there another
> >problem?
> >
> 
> I realized that I used " aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 2014.11) 4.9.3
> 20141031 (prerelease)"  which gave me errors like:
> 
> arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o: In function `__cpu_init_hyp_mode':
> /home/mbrugger/src/linux-next/./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:331:(.text+0x73b4):
> relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 against symbol
> `__kvm_hyp_vector' defined in .hyp.text section in arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o
> 
> So it was time to update my toolchain to "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC
> 5.1-2015.08) 5.1.1 20150608" which fixed the problem for me.

FWIW, I've also been seeing a bunch of reloc errors with allmodconfig,
for-next/core and GCC 4.9. loops_per_jiffy was one of the problematic
symbols, iirc, but upgrading to GCC 6 (devel) fixed the issue.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 10:54 [PATCH v5sub1 0/8] arm64: split linear and kernel mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 1/8] of/fdt: make memblock minimum physical address arch configurable Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 2/8] arm64: add support for ioremap() block mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 14:10   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-01 14:56     ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 3/8] arm64: introduce KIMAGE_VADDR as the virtual base of the kernel region Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 4/8] arm64: pgtable: implement static [pte|pmd|pud]_offset variants Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 5/8] arm64: decouple early fixmap init from linear mapping Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 6/8] arm64: kvm: deal with kernel symbols outside of " Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 7/8] arm64: move kernel image to base of vmalloc area Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 12:24   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 12:27     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 13:41       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 14:32   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-12 14:58   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-12 15:02     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-12 15:10       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-12 15:17         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-12 15:26           ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-12 15:38             ` Sudeep Holla
2016-02-12 16:06               ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-12 16:44                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-15 14:28                 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-15 14:35                   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-15 18:59                   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-16 12:59                     ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-16 14:12                       ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-16 14:29                         ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-16 15:17                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-16 15:36                         ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-16 16:42                           ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-17  9:15                             ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-17 10:10                               ` James Morse
2016-02-17 10:19                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-17 10:36                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-17 10:18                               ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-17 10:48                                 ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-17 14:39                       ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-17 16:31                         ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-17 19:35                           ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-17 17:01                         ` KASAN issues with idle / hotplug area (was: Re: [PATCH v5sub1 7/8] arm64: move kernel image to base of vmalloc area) Mark Rutland
2016-02-17 17:56                           ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-17 19:16                             ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-18  8:06                               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-18  8:22                               ` KASAN issues with idle / hotplug area Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-18  8:42                                 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-18  9:38                                 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-18 11:34                                   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-18  9:39                                 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-02-18 11:38                                   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-18 11:45                                   ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-18 11:15                                 ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-18 11:46                                   ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-02-18 12:08                                     ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-12 17:47   ` [PATCH v5sub1 7/8] arm64: move kernel image to base of vmalloc area James Morse
2016-02-12 18:01     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 10:54 ` [PATCH v5sub1 8/8] arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memory Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 14:50   ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-01 16:28     ` Fu Wei
2016-02-16  8:55       ` Fu Wei
2016-02-01 15:06   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 15:13     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 16:31       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 17:31         ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 17:57           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-01 18:02             ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-01 18:30               ` [PATCH] arm64: move back to generic memblock_enforce_memory_limit() Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 10:19                 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-02 10:28                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 10:44                     ` Catalin Marinas
2016-02-12 19:45 ` [PATCH v5sub1 0/8] arm64: split linear and kernel mappings Matthias Brugger
2016-02-12 19:47   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-12 20:10     ` Matthias Brugger
2016-02-12 20:37       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-13 14:28       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-15 13:29         ` Matthias Brugger
2016-02-15 13:40           ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-02-15 14:58           ` Ard Biesheuvel

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