Build failure on arm64 defconfig for linux-next recently

[Shawn Lin]

Hi Robin,

On 2018/2/23 19:54, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> On 23/02/18 08:03, Shawn Lin wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I failed to build the arm64 kernel for linux-20180222 and I confirm it
>> works for linux-20180206. It seems there was some patches for head.S
>> got merged. Is it a known issue? Or a fix is coming?
> 
> Yes, I broke it, sorry!
> 
> There's a fix queued in arm64/fixes/core already (04c4927359b1). Using a 

Good to know that! Thanks for help.

> different toolchain is another option, since the one I'm currently using 
> (gcc-linaro-7.2.1-2017.11) builds it just fine, which is how I managed 
> to create this mess in the first place ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Robin.
> 
>> make ARCH=arm64 defconfig
>>
>> make 
>> CROSS_COMPILE=gcc-linaro-6.3.1-aarch64/gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu- 
>>   ARCH=arm64 -j32
>>
>>
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S: Assembler messages:
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: found 'L', expected: ')'
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: found 'L', expected: ')'
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: found 'L', expected: ')'
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: junk at end of line, first 
>> unrecognized character is `L'
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: unexpected characters following 
>> instruction at operand 2 -- `movz x1,:abs_g1_s:0xff00ffffffUL'
>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:677: Error: unexpected characters following 
>> instruction at operand 2 -- `movk x1,:abs_g0_nc:0xff00ffffffUL'
>> make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kernel/head.o] Error 1
>>
>>
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> 
> 


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Best Regards
Shawn Lin