[PATCH 5/8] ARM: tegra: work around tegra THUMB2_KERNEL bug

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 1 15:42:04 EST 2012


On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:02:42PM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Alan Ott wrote at Thursday, March 01, 2012 12:27 PM:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > 
> > The tegra smp code cannot currently be built for t2, so
> > disable that combination for now, as a workaround.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> At least in next-20120229 with the .config I'm using, everything appears
> to compile fine. The link step does fail, but the error messages I get
> don't appear to be Tegra specific:
> 
> xxx/kernel/sched/clock.c:334: relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `sched_clock' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `post_relocation':
> xxx/kernel/module.c:2860: relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `module_finalize' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `show_interrupts':
> xxx/kernel/irq/proc.c:431: relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `arch_show_interrupts' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `pci_set_master':
> xxx/drivers/pci/pci.c:2674: relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `pcibios_set_master' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o

At a guess, it suggests your kernel image is too big for the relocations
contained within the code.  That's something for Thumb people to look
into and solve.



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