linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Move _etext to actual end of .text

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:37:11 -0600
From:   Ross Zwisler <zwisler@...nel.org>
To:     Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>
Cc:     Klaus Kusche <klaus.kusche@...puterix.info>, keescook@...omium.org,
        bp@...e.de, samitolvanen@...gle.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <zwisler@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Move _etext to actual end of .text

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM Johannes Hirte
<johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de> wrote:
> On 2019 Jun 09, Klaus Kusche wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Same problem for linux 5.1.7:
> > Kernel building fails with the same relocation error.
> >
> > 5.1.5 does not have the problem, builds fine for me.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to investigate the problem?
> >
>
> Please try linux 5.1.8. The problematic patch was reverted there.

I'm having this same issue with v5.2-rc5 using an older version of gcc
(4.9.2).  If I use a more recent version of gcc (7.3.0) it works fine.

Reverting this patch allows gcc v4.9.2 to build kernel v5.2-rc5 successfully.

You said in this chain that you were reverting this patch in stable
kernels.  Are you going to revert it in tip-of-tree as well?

- Ross