[PATCH v5sub1 0/8] arm64: split linear and kernel mappings

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:29:51PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >On 12 February 2016 at 21:10, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>On 12/02/16 20:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>On 12 February 2016 at 20:45, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com>
> >>>>I bisected linux-next (20160212) with the following error on booting with
> >>>>an
> >>>>initramfs:
> >>>>   Failed to execute /init (error -8)
> >>>>   request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> >>>>   Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
> >>>>   request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> >>>>   Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)
> >>>>   Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init=
> >>>>option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init..
> >>>>
> >>>>I tracked down the error to patch 7 of this series. But I realized that
> >>>>patch 7 does not compile, but from patch 8 onwards I observe the error.
> >>>>
> >
> >As far as this failure is concerned, I managed to reproduce an error
> >with patch #7 and not #8 applied, involving out of range kvm symbols
> >at link time. This is reproducible with GCC 4.8 but not GCC 4.9 or
> >later. Is this what you were seeing as well? Or is there another
> >problem?
> >
> 
> I realized that I used " aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 2014.11) 4.9.3
> 20141031 (prerelease)"  which gave me errors like:
> 
> arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o: In function `__cpu_init_hyp_mode':
> /home/mbrugger/src/linux-next/./arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h:331:(.text+0x73b4):
> relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 against symbol
> `__kvm_hyp_vector' defined in .hyp.text section in arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o
> 
> So it was time to update my toolchain to "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC
> 5.1-2015.08) 5.1.1 20150608" which fixed the problem for me.

FWIW, I've also been seeing a bunch of reloc errors with allmodconfig,
for-next/core and GCC 4.9. loops_per_jiffy was one of the problematic
symbols, iirc, but upgrading to GCC 6 (devel) fixed the issue.

Will