[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Sun Nov 4 13:28:39 EST 2007


An allyesconfig build creates a .text section that is so big that the
.text.init.refok and .fixup sections are too far away for the relocations
to be fixed up correctly. This patch fixes that by linking all the
relevent text sections for each file together.

Suggested by Paul Mackerras.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This still leaves us with the problem that the TOC overflows.

Dave, would something like this help as an alternative to the .fixup
change you committed recently?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 823a8cb..f66fa5d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ SECTIONS
 		ALIGN_FUNCTION();
 		*(.text.head)
 		_text = .;
-		TEXT_TEXT
+		*(.text .fixup .text.init.refok .exit.text.refok)
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		LOCK_TEXT
 		KPROBES_TEXT
-		*(.fixup)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 		*(.got1)
-- 
1.5.3.5




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