linux-kernel - [main-line]Build warnings on PowerPC system

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Message-ID: <61cf556c-4947-4bd6-af63-892fc0966dad@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:33:29 +0530
From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [main-line]Build warnings on PowerPC system

Greetings!!!

I see below build warnings while compiling mainline kernel on IBM Power9 
system.

Repo Link: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/

Head Commit: f6e0150b2003fb2b9265028a618aa1732b3edc8f

Attached is the .config.

Machine: IBM Power9

gcc version 11.5.0


Warnings:

ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX 
permissions
ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries has a LOAD segment with 
RWX permissions


If you happen to fix this, please add below tag.


Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>


Regards,

Venkat.

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