4.9-rc G5 build broken with a 2.23 binutils

[Hugh Dickins]

Hi Nick,

I've not been able to build 4.9-rc kernels for the PowerMac G5, getting

arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:
Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:770: Error: operand out of range
(0xffffffffffff8100 is not between 0x0000000000000000 and 0x000000000000ffff)
and 20 more similar before
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1024: Error: operand out of range
(0xffffffffffff9180 is not between 0x0000000000000000 and 0x000000000000ffff)
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1

That's with the binutils-2.23.2-8.1.4.ppc64 from openSUSE 13.1.

But yesterday your comment on @l in
a24553dd02dc ("powerpc/pseries: Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline")
helped me to the patch below (removing @l from LOAD_HANDLER, but leaving
@l in __LOAD_HANDLER), which gets the build working again (and produces
a good kernel).  For me.  But to judge by your comment, this would break
the build for someone else?  I don't mind keeping this as a local patch
if I'm the only one affected, so haven't signed off on it; but thought
I'd better inform you.

Hugh

---

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 4.9-rc4/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h	2016-10-29 15:02:42.921203905 -0700
+++ linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h	2016-11-05 16:26:34.250133166 -0700
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
  */
 #define LOAD_HANDLER(reg, label)					\
 	ld	reg,PACAKBASE(r13);	/* get high part of &label */	\
-	ori	reg,reg,(FIXED_SYMBOL_ABS_ADDR(label))@l;
+	ori	reg,reg,FIXED_SYMBOL_ABS_ADDR(label);
 
 #define __LOAD_HANDLER(reg, label)					\
 	ld	reg,PACAKBASE(r13);					\