linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix the allyesconfig build

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:56:42 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix the allyesconfig build

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:28:19 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> There are 2 drivers that have arrays of packed structures that contain
> pointers that end up at unaligned offsets.  These produce warnings in
> the PowerPC allyesconfig build like this:
> 
> WARNING: 148 bad relocations
> c00000000e56510b R_PPC64_UADDR64   .rodata+0x0000000001c72378
> c00000000e565126 R_PPC64_UADDR64   .rodata+0x0000000001c723c0
> 
> They are not drivers that are used on PowerPC (I assume), so mark them
> to not be built on PPC64 when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled.

😳😳

What's the offending structure in hisilicon? I'd rather have a look
packing structs with pointers in 'em sounds questionable.

I only see these two:

$ git grep packed drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hnae.h:struct __packed hnae_desc {
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h:struct __packed hns3_desc {