linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/791] 6.1.113-rc2 review

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Message-ID: <2024102100-robust-shaking-8655@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:45:10 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/791] 6.1.113-rc2 review

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 08:17:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 10/15/24 04:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.113 release.
> > There are 791 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:22:41 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> ...
> 
> > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> >      powerpc/64: Option to build big-endian with ELFv2 ABI
> > 
> 
> With this patch in the tree, trying to build ppc:allmodconfig
> with gcc version 13.3 and binutils version 2.42 results in:
> 
> Error log:
> /tmp/cccUl45i.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cccUl45i.s: Error: .size expression for gcm_init_p8 does not evaluate to a constant
> 
> and many other similar messages. The problem affects various drivers in
> drivers/crypto/vmx/. The problem afects all configurations with CRYPTO_DEV_VMX_ENCRYPT
> enabled.
> 
> Reverting the patch doesn't work because this patch is part of a larger series. However,
> I found that applying upstream commit 505ea33089dc ("powerpc/64: Add big-endian ELFv2
> flavour to crypto VMX asm generation") fixes the problem.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h