kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper, branch v6.12.80

powerpc/boot: Fix dash warning

2025-05-09T07:50:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit e3f506b78d921e48a00d005bea5c45ec36a99240 ] 'commit b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support")' suppressed linker warnings, but the expressed used did not go well with POSIX shell (dash) resulting with this warning arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: 237: [: 0: unexpected operator ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Fix the check to handle the reported warning. Patch also fixes couple of shellcheck reported errors for the same line. In arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper line 237: if [ $(${CROSS}ld -v --no-warn-rwx-segments &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]; then ^-- SC2046 (warning): Quote this to prevent word splitting. ^------^ SC2086 (info): Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. ^---------^ SC3020 (warning): In POSIX sh, &> is undefined. Fixes: b2accfe7ca5b ("powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423082154.30625-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/boot: Check for ld-option support

2025-05-09T07:50:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit b2accfe7ca5bc9f9af28e603b79bdd5ad8df5c0b ] Commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") enabled support to add linker option "--no-warn-rwx-segments", if the version is greater than 2.39. Similar build warning were reported recently from linker version 2.35.2. 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 Fix the warning by checking for "--no-warn-rwx-segments" option support in linker to enable it, instead of checking for the version range. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/61cf556c-4947-4bd6-af63-892fc0966dad@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401004218.24869-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc: Remove 40x leftovers

2024-07-12T01:43:41+00:00

Remove stale references to 40x. Fixes: e939da89d024 ("powerpc: Remove 40x from Kconfig and defconfig") Fixes: 548f5244f106 ("powerpc/40x: Remove EP405") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/ab30ae302783d8617d407864b92db1b926ab5ab9.1720694914.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc/boot: Remove all 40x platforms from boot

2024-06-28T12:28:47+00:00

Remove 40x platforms from the boot directory. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20240628121201.130802-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc/boot: Fix incorrect version calculation issue in ld_version

2023-01-11T05:28:43+00:00

The ld_version() function computes the wrong version value for certain ld versions such as the following: $ ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.37.20211103-150100.7.37 For input 2.37.20211103, the value computed is 202348030000 which is higher than the value for a later version like 2.39.0, which is 23900000. This issue was highlighted because with the above ld version, the powerpc kernel build started failing with ld error: "unrecognized option --no-warn-rwx-segments". This was caused due to the recent commit 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") which added the --no-warn-rwx-segments linker flag if the ld version is greater than 2.39. Due to the bug in ld_version(), ld version 2.37.20111103 is wrongly calculated to be greater than 2.39 and the unsupported flag is added. To fix it, if version is of the form x.y.z and length(z) == 8, then most probably it is a date [yyyymmdd] commonly used for release snapshots and not an actual new version. Hence, ignore the date part replacing it with 0. Fixes: 579aee9fc594 ("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo [mpe: Tweak change log wording/formatting, add Fixes tag] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104202437.90039-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: Use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"

2022-11-24T12:31:51+00:00

The latest version of grep claims the egrep is now obsolete so the build now contains warnings that look like: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E fix this up by moving the related file to use "grep -E" instead. sed -i "s/egrep/grep -E/g" `grep egrep -rwl arch/powerpc` Here are the steps to install the latest grep: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-3.8.tar.gz tar xf grep-3.8.tar.gz cd grep-3.8 && ./configure && make sudo make install export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668764429-11540-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn

powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions

2022-11-24T12:31:49+00:00

This is a follow on from commit 0d362be5b142 ("Makefile: link with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments") for arch/powerpc/boot to address wanrings like: ld: warning: opal-calls.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker ld: warning: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions This fixes issue https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/417 Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221010165721.106267e6@canb.auug.org.au

kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once

2022-09-28T19:40:15+00:00

Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise, vmlinux would be rebuilt every time. When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that time to really fix UTS_VERSION. However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not need rebuilding. To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows: [1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from include/generated/compile.h include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION. [2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c from init/version.c init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link, they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and timestamp. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

powerpc: Fix all occurences of "the the"

2022-05-22T05:59:43+00:00

Rather than waiting for the bots to fix these one-by-one, fix all occurences of "the the" throughout arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518142629.513007-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc/boot: Set LC_ALL=C in wrapper script

2021-10-27T11:31:22+00:00

While trying to build a simple Image for ACADIA platform, I got the following error: WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.acadia INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6ae7d0) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x400000) INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000) powerpc64-linux-gnu-ld : mode d'émulation non reconnu : -T Émulations prises en charge : elf64ppc elf32ppc elf32ppclinux elf32ppcsim elf64lppc elf32lppc elf32lppclinux elf32lppcsim make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile:424 : arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.acadia] Erreur 1 make: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:285 : simpleImage.acadia] Erreur 2 Trying again with V=1 shows the following command powerpc64-linux-gnu-ld -m -T arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds -Ttext 0x700000 --no-dynamic-linker -o arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.acadia -Map wrapper.map arch/powerpc/boot/fixed-head.o arch/powerpc/boot/simpleboot.o ./zImage.3278022.o arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper.a The argument of '-m' is missing. This is due to the wrapper script calling 'objdump -p vmlinux' and looking for 'file format', whereas the output of objdump is: vmlinux: format de fichier elf32-powerpc En-tête de programme: LOAD off 0x00010000 vaddr 0xc0000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**16 filesz 0x0069e1d4 memsz 0x006c128c flags rwx NOTE off 0x0064591c vaddr 0xc063591c paddr 0x0063591c align 2**2 filesz 0x00000054 memsz 0x00000054 flags --- Add LC_ALL=C at the beginning of the wrapper script in order to get the output expected by the script: vmlinux: file format elf32-powerpc Program Header: LOAD off 0x00010000 vaddr 0xc0000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**16 filesz 0x0069e1d4 memsz 0x006c128c flags rwx NOTE off 0x0064591c vaddr 0xc063591c paddr 0x0063591c align 2**2 filesz 0x00000054 memsz 0x00000054 flags --- Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a9ff3bc98035f63b122c051f02dc47c7aed10430.1635256089.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu