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<title>powerpc/Makefile: Fix ld version check with 64-bit LE-only toolchain</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T06:41:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2017-07-26T05:00:42+00:00</published>
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In commit efe0160cfd40 ("powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions
for modules"), we added an ld version check early in the powerpc
top-level Makefile.

Because the Makefile runs before the kernel config is setup, the
checks for CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN etc. all take the default case. So
we end up configuring ld for 32-bit big endian.

That would be OK, except that for historical (or perhaps no) reason,
we use 'override LD' to add the endian flags to the LD variable
itself, rather than the normal approach of adding them to LDFLAGS.

The end result is that when we check the ld version we run it as:

  $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld -EB -m elf32ppc --version

This often works, unless you are using a 64-bit only and/or little
endian only, toolchain. In which case you see something like:

  $ make defconfig
  powerpc64le-linux-ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppc
  Supported emulations: elf64lppc elf32lppc elf32lppclinux elf32lppcsim
  /bin/sh: 1: [: -ge: unexpected operator

The proper fix is to stop using 'override LD', but that will require a
fair bit of testing. Instead we can fix it for now just by reordering
the Makefile to do the version check earlier.

Fixes: efe0160cfd40 ("powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions for modules")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In commit efe0160cfd40 ("powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions
for modules"), we added an ld version check early in the powerpc
top-level Makefile.

Because the Makefile runs before the kernel config is setup, the
checks for CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN etc. all take the default case. So
we end up configuring ld for 32-bit big endian.

That would be OK, except that for historical (or perhaps no) reason,
we use 'override LD' to add the endian flags to the LD variable
itself, rather than the normal approach of adding them to LDFLAGS.

The end result is that when we check the ld version we run it as:

  $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld -EB -m elf32ppc --version

This often works, unless you are using a 64-bit only and/or little
endian only, toolchain. In which case you see something like:

  $ make defconfig
  powerpc64le-linux-ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf32ppc
  Supported emulations: elf64lppc elf32lppc elf32lppclinux elf32lppcsim
  /bin/sh: 1: [: -ge: unexpected operator

The proper fix is to stop using 'override LD', but that will require a
fair bit of testing. Instead we can fix it for now just by reordering
the Makefile to do the version check earlier.

Fixes: efe0160cfd40 ("powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions for modules")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections</title>
<updated>2017-05-30T04:59:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T17:40:40+00:00</published>
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Add --orphan-handling=warn to final link flags. This ensures we can
handle all sections explicitly. This would have caught subtle breakage
such as 7de3b27bac47da9de08409df1d69664acbb72197 at build-time.

Also bring existing orphan sections into the fold:
- .text.hot and .text.unlikely are compiler generated sections.
- .sdata2, .dynsbss, .plt are used by PPC32
- We previously did not specify DWARF_DEBUG or STABS_DEBUG
- DWARF_DEBUG did not include all DWARF sections that can be emitted
- A number of sections are unused and can be discarded.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add --orphan-handling=warn to final link flags. This ensures we can
handle all sections explicitly. This would have caught subtle breakage
such as 7de3b27bac47da9de08409df1d69664acbb72197 at build-time.

Also bring existing orphan sections into the fold:
- .text.hot and .text.unlikely are compiler generated sections.
- .sdata2, .dynsbss, .plt are used by PPC32
- We previously did not specify DWARF_DEBUG or STABS_DEBUG
- DWARF_DEBUG did not include all DWARF sections that can be emitted
- A number of sections are unused and can be discarded.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: Linker on-demand sfpr functions for modules</title>
<updated>2017-05-30T04:59:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T15:56:52+00:00</published>
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For final link, the powerpc64 linker generates fpr save/restore
functions on-demand, placing them in the .sfpr section. Starting with
binutils 2.25, these can be provided for non-final links with
--save-restore-funcs. Use that where possible for module links.

This saves about 200 bytes per module (~60kB) on powernv defconfig
build.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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For final link, the powerpc64 linker generates fpr save/restore
functions on-demand, placing them in the .sfpr section. Starting with
binutils 2.25, these can be provided for non-final links with
--save-restore-funcs. Use that where possible for module links.

This saves about 200 bytes per module (~60kB) on powernv defconfig
build.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory</title>
<updated>2017-04-28T11:26:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-26T03:26:10+00:00</published>
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Move a couple of existing scripts under there. Remove scripts directory:
a script is a tool, a tool is not a script.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Move a couple of existing scripts under there. Remove scripts directory:
a script is a tool, a tool is not a script.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use the new post-link pass to check relocations</title>
<updated>2017-04-28T11:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-26T03:26:09+00:00</published>
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Currently powerpc has to introduce a dependency on its default build
target zImage in order to run a relocation check pass over the linked
vmlinux. This is deficient because the check is not run if the plain
vmlinux target is built, or if one of the other boot targets is built.

Switch to using the kbuild post-link pass, added in commit fbe6e37dab97
("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile") in order to run this
check. In future powerpc will use this to do more complicated operations,
but initially using it for something simple is a good first step.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Currently powerpc has to introduce a dependency on its default build
target zImage in order to run a relocation check pass over the linked
vmlinux. This is deficient because the check is not run if the plain
vmlinux target is built, or if one of the other boot targets is built.

Switch to using the kbuild post-link pass, added in commit fbe6e37dab97
("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile") in order to run this
check. In future powerpc will use this to do more complicated operations,
but initially using it for something simple is a good first step.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:24:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-27T02:46:20+00:00</published>
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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;
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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;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add purgatory for kexec_file_load() implementation.</title>
<updated>2016-11-30T12:15:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thiago Jung Bauermann</name>
<email>bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-29T12:45:52+00:00</published>
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This purgatory implementation is based on the versions from kexec-tools
and kexec-lite, with additional changes.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This purgatory implementation is based on the versions from kexec-tools
and kexec-lite, with additional changes.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Stop passing ARCH=ppc64 to boot Makefile</title>
<updated>2016-11-29T10:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-21T10:14:33+00:00</published>
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Back in 2005 when the ppc/ppc64 merge started, we used to build the
kernel code in arch/powerpc but use the boot code from arch/ppc or
arch/ppc64 depending on whether we were building for 32 or 64-bit.

Originally we called the boot Makefile passing ARCH=$(OLDARCH), where
OLDARCH was ppc or ppc64.

In commit 20f629549b30 ("powerpc: Make building the boot image work for
both 32-bit and 64-bit") (2005-10-11) we split the call for 32/64-bit
using an ifeq check, because the two Makefiles took different targets,
and explicitly passed ARCH=ppc64 for the 64-bit case and ARCH=ppc for
the 32-bit case.

Then in commit 94b212c29f68 ("powerpc: Move ppc64 boot wrapper code over
to arch/powerpc") (2005-11-16) we moved the boot code into arch/powerpc
and dropped the ppc case, but kept passing ARCH=ppc64 to
arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile.

Since then there have been several more boot targets added, all of which
have copied the ARCH=ppc64 setting, such that now we have four targets
using it.

Currently it seems that nothing actually uses the ARCH value, but that's
basically just luck, and in particular it prevents us from using the
generic cpp_lds_S rule. It's also clearly wrong, ARCH=ppc64 is dead,
buried and cremated.

Fix it by dropping the setting of ARCH completely, the correct value is
exported by the top level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Back in 2005 when the ppc/ppc64 merge started, we used to build the
kernel code in arch/powerpc but use the boot code from arch/ppc or
arch/ppc64 depending on whether we were building for 32 or 64-bit.

Originally we called the boot Makefile passing ARCH=$(OLDARCH), where
OLDARCH was ppc or ppc64.

In commit 20f629549b30 ("powerpc: Make building the boot image work for
both 32-bit and 64-bit") (2005-10-11) we split the call for 32/64-bit
using an ifeq check, because the two Makefiles took different targets,
and explicitly passed ARCH=ppc64 for the 64-bit case and ARCH=ppc for
the 32-bit case.

Then in commit 94b212c29f68 ("powerpc: Move ppc64 boot wrapper code over
to arch/powerpc") (2005-11-16) we moved the boot code into arch/powerpc
and dropped the ppc case, but kept passing ARCH=ppc64 to
arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile.

Since then there have been several more boot targets added, all of which
have copied the ARCH=ppc64 setting, such that now we have four targets
using it.

Currently it seems that nothing actually uses the ARCH value, but that's
basically just luck, and in particular it prevents us from using the
generic cpp_lds_S rule. It's also clearly wrong, ARCH=ppc64 is dead,
buried and cremated.

Fix it by dropping the setting of ARCH completely, the correct value is
exported by the top level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add option to use thin archives</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T11:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-19T03:15:59+00:00</published>
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Add an option to use thin archives to build the kernel.
Thin archives are explained in commit a5967db9af51 ("kbuild: allow
architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r").

This is a gradual way to introduce the option to testers.

Some change to the way we invoke ar is required so it can be used
by scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Make it an explicit option not dependant on COMPILE_TEST]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Add an option to use thin archives to build the kernel.
Thin archives are explained in commit a5967db9af51 ("kbuild: allow
architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r").

This is a gradual way to introduce the option to testers.

Some change to the way we invoke ar is required so it can be used
by scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Make it an explicit option not dependant on COMPILE_TEST]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3s64: Always build for power4 or later</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T00:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-20T05:00:14+00:00</published>
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When we're not compiling for a specific CPU, ie. none of the
CONFIG_POWERx_CPU options are set, and CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU *is* set, we
currently don't pass any -mcpu option to the compiler. This means the
compiler builds for a "generic" Power CPU.

But back in 2014 we dropped support for pre power4 CPUs in commit
468a33028edd ("powerpc: Drop support for pre-POWER4 cpus").

Given that, there's no point in building the kernel to run on pre power4
cpus. So update the flags we pass to the compiler when
CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is set, to specify -mcpu=power4.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When we're not compiling for a specific CPU, ie. none of the
CONFIG_POWERx_CPU options are set, and CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU *is* set, we
currently don't pass any -mcpu option to the compiler. This means the
compiler builds for a "generic" Power CPU.

But back in 2014 we dropped support for pre power4 CPUs in commit
468a33028edd ("powerpc: Drop support for pre-POWER4 cpus").

Given that, there's no point in building the kernel to run on pre power4
cpus. So update the flags we pass to the compiler when
CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is set, to specify -mcpu=power4.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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