linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: fix sifive and thead section mismatches in errata

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Message-ID: <20230501-slate-headlamp-453304e8864d@spud>
Date:   Mon, 1 May 2023 16:37:13 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Evan Green <evan@...osinc.com>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: fix sifive and thead section mismatches in
 errata

On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 08:26:19AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 12:11 PM Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Ohh man, that's a pretty bad config to try use (if that's your default)
> > for build testing stuff. The k210_mmu defconfig doesn't enable anything
> > other than SOC_CANAAN.
> > I could reproduce Randy's issue on defconfig w/ CONFIG_MODULES disabled.
> 
> That's the one that caught me before, so I remembered it as being
> "different". I'll try what you describe above next time I'm hunting
> for section mismatches.

By nature of being nommu with lots of stuff disabled, it is a good niche
config to test - the nommu stuff mostly gets forgotten about..
On the other hand, it does skip the errata handling stuff which is what
caught us out here.

Cheers,
Conor.

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