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From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:18:17 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/193] 6.1.8-rc1 review
To:     Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 00:41, Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 01:39:11PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 20:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.8 release.
> > > There are 193 patches in this series, all will be posted as a respons=
e
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, plea=
se
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:02:08 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/pa=
tch-6.1.8-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st=
able-rc.git linux-6.1.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> >
> > Results from Linaro=E2=80=99s test farm.
> >
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> >
> > * sh, build
> >   - gcc-8-dreamcast_defconfig
> >   - gcc-8-microdev_defconfig
>
> Naresh, any chance you could test again adding the following:
>
> diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 3161b9ccd2a5..b6276a3521d7 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>   * Written by Niibe Yutaka and Paul Mundt
>   */
>  OUTPUT_ARCH(sh)
> +#define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
>  #include <asm/thread_info.h>
>  #include <asm/cache.h>
>  #include <asm/vmlinux.lds.h>

Above patch fixes the reported problem.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>

>
> My guess is build environment is using ld < 2.36??

"ld": "GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.31.1",

However, we have been building with gcc-8, gcc-10, gcc-11 and gcc-10.

> and this is probably similar to:
> a494398bde27 ("s390: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to fix link error with G=
NU ld < 2.36")
> 4b9880dbf3bd ("powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT")
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --Tom

Best regards
Naresh Kamboju