Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC:kernel: make additional room in exception vector area

From: Michael Neuling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:07:17 +1100

Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:31:31 +0800 Chen Gang <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >   The FWNMI region is fixed at 0x7000 and the vector are now overflowing
> >   that with allmodconfig. Fix that by moving slb_miss_realmode code out
> >   of that region as it doesn't need to be that close to the call sites
> >   (it is a _GLOBAL function)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S |  144 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks, Chen,
> 
> I have applied this to linux-next today and pending the builds overnight,
> will send it to Linus tomorrow or Wednesday.

sfr,

FYI you're gonna need this one also to make allmodconfig work.

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/230244/

Mikey