[PATCH 07/11] powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)

kbuild test robot lkp at intel.com
Wed Dec 19 20:42:03 AEDT 2018


Hi Diana,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on powerpc/next]
[also build test WARNING on v4.20-rc7 next-20181218]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Diana-Craciun/powerpc-fsl-NXP-PowerPC-Spectre-variant-2-workarounds/20181213-015503
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git next
config: powerpc-icon_defconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.2.0-11) 7.2.0
reproduce:
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        GCC_VERSION=7.2.0 make.cross ARCH=powerpc 

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `__btb_flush_fixup'.
>> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `__btb_flush_fixup'.
>> powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' from `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `__btb_flush_fixup'.

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