[PATCH 2/3] ARM: tegra: fix relocation truncated error when THUMB2_KERNEL enabled

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Apr 18 12:32:13 EDT 2013


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:50:54PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Joseph Lo <josephl at nvidia.com>
> 
> The conditional branch instruction in Thumb2 only available to short range.
> The linker will fail when the conditional branch over the range. Then
> resulting in link error when generating kernel image. e.g.:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/reset-handler.S:47:(.text+0xf8e):
> relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP19 against symbol
> `cpu_resume' defined in .data section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
> 
> This patch using a Thumb2 instruction IT (if-then) to have a longer branch
> range.
> 
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>


Applied to fixes-non-critical.


-Olof



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