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Will Deacon
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Commit 5cf896fb6b ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with
RELR relocations") introduced CONFIG_TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR, which checks
for RELR support in the toolchain as part of the kernel configuration.
During this procedure, "$(NM)" is invoked to see if it supports the new
relocation format, however PowerPC conditionally overrides this variable
in the architecture Makefile in order to pass '--synthetic' when
targetting PPC64.
This conditional override causes Kconfig to recurse forever, since
CONFIG_TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR cannot be determined without $(NM) being
defined, but that in turn depends on CONFIG_PPC64:
$ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu-
scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig
[...]
In this particular case, it looks like PowerPC may be able to pass
'--synthetic' unconditionally to nm or even drop it altogether. While
that is being resolved, let's just bodge the RELR check by picking up
$(NM) directly from the environment in whatever state it happens to be
in.
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.