Problems with allyesconfig kernel build

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:02:31 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> This was first noted with the -mm tree, but has now migrated into Linus'
> tree.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't know what to do about that.  I'm not even sure which
patch caused it.

>  An allyesconfig build dies in the link stage like this:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x80c8): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern
> /usr/bin/ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x8160): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern
> /usr/bin/ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x81c4): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
> 
> We already compile with -mminimal-toc and adding
> -fno-optimize-sibling-call did not help.
> 
> Intuiting the obvious, I changed all the _INIT_STATIC and _INIT_GLOBAL
> uses in head_64.S back to _STATIC and _GLOBAL (which just moves the code
> from .text.init.refok to .text).  Now the linker segfaults instead.  :-)
> 
> /bin/sh: line 1:  5260 Segmentation fault      ld -m elf64ppc -Bstatic --emit-relocs --build-id -o .tmp_vmlinux1 -T arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.o arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.o init/built-in.o --start-group usr/built-in.o arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o arch/powerpc/mm/built-in.o arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.o arch/powerpc/sysdev/built-in.o arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o arch/powerpc/xmon/built-in.o kernel/built-in.o mm/built-in.o fs/built-in.o ipc/built-in.o security/built-in.o crypto/built-in.o block/built-in.o lib/lib.a lib/built-in.o drivers/built-in.o sound/built-in.o arch/powerpc/oprofile/built-in.o net/built-in.o --end-group
> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 139
> 
> $ ld --version
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.18
> 
> I take this as an improvement :-)
> 
> We link .text.init.refok immediately after .text, but with
> allyesconfig, .text ends up very large.
> 
> The --emit-relocs is a product of something else I am working on.  So I
> took that out and now get a whole lot more messages like:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: net/built-in.o(.fixup+0x4): sibling call optimization to `.text' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text' extern
> /usr/bin/ld: net/built-in.o(.fixup+0xc): sibling call optimization to `.text' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text' extern
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

I still don't know ;)

What did we do which caused all this to start happening?