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<title>powerpc: vdso: Make vdso32 installation conditional in vdso_install</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T09:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
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<published>2019-03-22T04:24:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ff6d27823f619892ab96f7461764840e0d786b15 ]

The 32-bit vDSO is not needed and not normally built for 64-bit
little-endian configurations.  However, the vdso_install target still
builds and installs it.  Add the same config condition as is normally
used for the build.

Fixes: e0d005916994 ("powerpc/vdso: Disable building the 32-bit VDSO ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ff6d27823f619892ab96f7461764840e0d786b15 ]

The 32-bit vDSO is not needed and not normally built for 64-bit
little-endian configurations.  However, the vdso_install target still
builds and installs it.  Add the same config condition as is normally
used for the build.

Fixes: e0d005916994 ("powerpc/vdso: Disable building the 32-bit VDSO ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T09:27:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2016-11-27T02:46:20+00:00</published>
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commit 4dc831aa88132f835cefe876aa0206977c4d7710 upstream.

GCC can compile with either endian, but the default ABI version is set
based on the default endianness of the toolchain. Alan Modra says:

  you need both -mbig and -mabi=elfv1 to make a powerpc64le gcc
  generate powerpc64 code

The opposite is true for powerpc64 when generating -mlittle it
requires -mabi=elfv2 to generate v2 ABI, which we were already doing.

This change adds ABI annotations together with endianness for all cases,
LE and BE. This fixes the case of building a BE kernel with a toolchain
that is LE by default.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4dc831aa88132f835cefe876aa0206977c4d7710 upstream.

GCC can compile with either endian, but the default ABI version is set
based on the default endianness of the toolchain. Alan Modra says:

  you need both -mbig and -mabi=elfv1 to make a powerpc64le gcc
  generate powerpc64 code

The opposite is true for powerpc64 when generating -mlittle it
requires -mabi=elfv2 to generate v2 ABI, which we were already doing.

This change adds ABI annotations together with endianness for all cases,
LE and BE. This fixes the case of building a BE kernel with a toolchain
that is LE by default.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>powerpc/Makefile: Use cflags-y/aflags-y for setting endian options</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T09:27:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-09T12:43:46+00:00</published>
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commit 164af597ce945751e2dcd53d0a86e84203a6d117 upstream.

When we introduced the little endian support, we added the endian flags
to CC directly using override. I don't know the history of why we did
that, I suspect no one does.

Although this mostly works, it has one bug, which is that CROSS32CC
doesn't get -mbig-endian. That means when the compiler is little endian
by default and the user is building big endian, vdso32 is incorrectly
compiled as little endian and the kernel fails to build.

Instead we can add the endian flags to cflags-y/aflags-y, and then
append those to KBUILD_CFLAGS/KBUILD_AFLAGS.

This has the advantage of being 1) less ugly, 2) the documented way of
adding flags in the arch Makefile and 3) it fixes building vdso32 with a
LE toolchain.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 164af597ce945751e2dcd53d0a86e84203a6d117 upstream.

When we introduced the little endian support, we added the endian flags
to CC directly using override. I don't know the history of why we did
that, I suspect no one does.

Although this mostly works, it has one bug, which is that CROSS32CC
doesn't get -mbig-endian. That means when the compiler is little endian
by default and the user is building big endian, vdso32 is incorrectly
compiled as little endian and the kernel fails to build.

Instead we can add the endian flags to cflags-y/aflags-y, and then
append those to KBUILD_CFLAGS/KBUILD_AFLAGS.

This has the advantage of being 1) less ugly, 2) the documented way of
adding flags in the arch Makefile and 3) it fixes building vdso32 with a
LE toolchain.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Donnellan &lt;ajd@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>powerpc/cell: Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T08:51:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T08:17:07+00:00</published>
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The TUNE_CELL option allows you to build a kernel that runs on multiple
CPUs but is tuned (ie. optimised) to run on Cell CPUs. Now days no one
is building a distro in that fashion, and any users who are building
custom kernels for their Cell machines are better off building with
CONFIG_CELL_CPU, which builds a kernel that only runs on Cell and
therefore can be optimised even more aggresively.

Dropping the option also avoids confusing other users, who are presented
with an option to tune for Cell when they are not building for a Cell
CPU at all.

Suggested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The TUNE_CELL option allows you to build a kernel that runs on multiple
CPUs but is tuned (ie. optimised) to run on Cell CPUs. Now days no one
is building a distro in that fashion, and any users who are building
custom kernels for their Cell machines are better off building with
CONFIG_CELL_CPU, which builds a kernel that only runs on Cell and
therefore can be optimised even more aggresively.

Dropping the option also avoids confusing other users, who are presented
with an option to tune for Cell when they are not building for a Cell
CPU at all.

Suggested-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Add ppc64le_defconfig</title>
<updated>2015-10-01T06:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-23T05:40:35+00:00</published>
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Based directly on ppc64_defconfig using merge_config.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Based directly on ppc64_defconfig using merge_config.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:12:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:12:19+00:00</published>
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Pull core kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 - modpost portability fix
 - linker script fix
 - genksyms segfault fix
 - fixdep cleanup
 - fix for clang detection

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix clang detection
  kbuild: fixdep: drop meaningless hash table initialization
  kbuild: fixdep: optimize code slightly
  genksyms: Regenerate parser
  genksyms: Duplicate function pointer type definitions segfault
  kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement
  Avoid conflict with host definitions when cross-compiling
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Pull core kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 - modpost portability fix
 - linker script fix
 - genksyms segfault fix
 - fixdep cleanup
 - fix for clang detection

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix clang detection
  kbuild: fixdep: drop meaningless hash table initialization
  kbuild: fixdep: optimize code slightly
  genksyms: Regenerate parser
  genksyms: Duplicate function pointer type definitions segfault
  kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement
  Avoid conflict with host definitions when cross-compiling
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<title>kbuild: Fix clang detection</title>
<updated>2015-09-04T11:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Marek</name>
<email>mmarek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T15:36:41+00:00</published>
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We cannot detect clang before including the arch Makefile, because that
can set the default cross compiler. We also cannot detect clang after
including the arch Makefile, because powerpc wants to know about clang.
Solve this by using an deferred variable. This costs us a few shell
invocations, but this is only a constant number.

Reported-by: Behan Webster &lt;behanw@converseincode.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
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We cannot detect clang before including the arch Makefile, because that
can set the default cross compiler. We also cannot detect clang after
including the arch Makefile, because powerpc wants to know about clang.
Solve this by using an deferred variable. This costs us a few shell
invocations, but this is only a constant number.

Reported-by: Behan Webster &lt;behanw@converseincode.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/85xx: Use kconfig fragments</title>
<updated>2015-08-08T03:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T23:14:04+00:00</published>
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Unify mpc85xx and corenet configs using fragments, to ease maintenance
and avoid the sort of drift that the previous patch fixed.

Hardware and software options are separated, with the hope that other
embedded platforms could share the software options, and to make it
easier to maintain custom/alternate configs that focus on either
hardware or software options.

Due to the previous patch, this patch should not affect the results of
any of the affected defconfigs -- only how those results are achieved.
The resulting config is more or less the union of the options that any
of the configs previously selected.  No attempt was made in this (or
the previous) patch to edit out questionable options, but this patch
will make it easier to do so in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Unify mpc85xx and corenet configs using fragments, to ease maintenance
and avoid the sort of drift that the previous patch fixed.

Hardware and software options are separated, with the hope that other
embedded platforms could share the software options, and to make it
easier to maintain custom/alternate configs that focus on either
hardware or software options.

Due to the previous patch, this patch should not affect the results of
any of the affected defconfigs -- only how those results are achieved.
The resulting config is more or less the union of the options that any
of the configs previously selected.  No attempt was made in this (or
the previous) patch to edit out questionable options, but this patch
will make it easier to do so in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't use gcc specific options on clang</title>
<updated>2015-06-11T07:33:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-25T22:53:29+00:00</published>
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We have code to choose between several options, eg. -mabi=elfv2 vs
-mcall-aixdesc, and -mcmodel=medium vs -mminimal-toc. But these are all
GCC specific, so use cc-option on all of them.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We have code to choose between several options, eg. -mabi=elfv2 vs
-mcall-aixdesc, and -mcmodel=medium vs -mminimal-toc. But these are all
GCC specific, so use cc-option on all of them.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Don't use -mno-strict-align on clang</title>
<updated>2015-06-11T07:33:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-25T22:53:28+00:00</published>
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We added -mno-strict-align in commit f036b3681962 (powerpc: Work around little
endian gcc bug) to fix gcc bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57134

Clang doesn't understand it. We need to use a conditional because we can't use the
simpler call cc-option here.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We added -mno-strict-align in commit f036b3681962 (powerpc: Work around little
endian gcc bug) to fix gcc bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57134

Clang doesn't understand it. We need to use a conditional because we can't use the
simpler call cc-option here.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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