Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Revert removing of _INIT_GLOBAL(), _STATIC() and _INIT_STATIC()

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:00:25 +1000

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 16:13 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 14:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Weird ... what are your gcc and binutils versions ? Smells like a
> > > toolchain issue to me but I need to dig a bit more. Doesn't hit any
> > > of my test configs here.
> > > 
> > 
> > Can you test the attached config with this toolchain and see if you get
> > the same build bug.
> 
> Yeah ok, I hit it too, it's one of those issues with the bloody
> alternate feature sections getting pushed too far away. Argh.

This should fix it temporarily at least:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/369950/

cheers