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From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram•es>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman•id.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond•net.au>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (powerpc related)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:29:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120621072928.GA13998@visitor2.iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340256961.1998.11.camel@concordia>

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:36:01PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 17:50 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > allyesconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > powerpc64-linux-ld: arch/powerpc/net/built-in.o: In function `bpf_slow_path_word':
> > (.text+0x90): sibling call optimization to `skb_copy_bits' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `skb_copy_bits' extern
> 
> 
> Those seem to be caused because we don't have a nop after the call,
> meaning we can't patch the TOC pointer on the way back. Adding a nop
> fixes those.
> 
> But, then I get 32,410 variants of this:
> 
> powerpc64-linux-ld: /src/next/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:189:(.text+0x89b990): 
> 	sibling call optimization to `_restgpr0_28' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs;
> 	recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `_restgpr0_28' extern
> 
> 

These functions should not need a TOC in the first place. There is
code in the linker (for 64 bit only: bfd/elf64-ppc.c) to automatically 
generate them whenever they are needed.

I suspect you compile with -Os. But I don't think you can use
these functions when doing a sibling call since restgpr0_nn
implies a return to the caller. restgpr1_nn would be different...

> And those are generated calls so I don't see how we can fix them.
> 
> > I started building with gcc 4.6.3/binutils 2.22 today.  gcc
> > 4.6.0/binutils 2.21 do not produce this error, it produces this instead
> > (which has been happening for a long time):
> > 
> > powerpc64-linux-ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k
> 
> 
> So presumably there's some new error checking that we're hitting, I
> imagine it was always broken, but now it's being more explicit.

I'm not so sure. I suspect gcc, but upgrading gcc and binutils at the
same time may not be the wisest...

	Gabriel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-21  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20  7:50 linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (powerpc related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-20 10:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21  5:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21  6:24   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21  7:07     ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21  7:38       ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21 10:48         ` Alan Modra
2012-06-21 11:43           ` Alan Modra
2012-06-22  0:39             ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21  7:29   ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-28  8:49 Stephen Rothwell
2011-12-28 10:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-02  8:25   ` Grant Likely
2012-01-02  8:39     ` Grant Likely
2010-09-03  3:24 Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-17  4:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-16  7:19 Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-19  0:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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