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From:   Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:37:11 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Move _etext to actual end of .text
To:     Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
Cc:     Klaus Kusche <klaus.kusche@computerix.info>, keescook@chromium.org,
        bp@suse.de, samitolvanen@google.com,
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        Guenter Roeck <groeck@google.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
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On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM Johannes Hirte
<johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de> wrote:
> On 2019 Jun 09, Klaus Kusche wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Same problem for linux 5.1.7:
> > Kernel building fails with the same relocation error.
> >
> > 5.1.5 does not have the problem, builds fine for me.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to investigate the problem?
> >
>
> Please try linux 5.1.8. The problematic patch was reverted there.

I'm having this same issue with v5.2-rc5 using an older version of gcc
(4.9.2).  If I use a more recent version of gcc (7.3.0) it works fine.

Reverting this patch allows gcc v4.9.2 to build kernel v5.2-rc5 successfully.

You said in this chain that you were reverting this patch in stable
kernels.  Are you going to revert it in tip-of-tree as well?

- Ross