[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "parisc: Only use -mfast-indirect-calls option for 32-bit kernel builds" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    parisc: Only use -mfast-indirect-calls option for 32-bit kernel builds

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6c7028ebaee91007b657a01d793a0514e6479455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin at bell.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:54:50 -0400
Subject: parisc: Only use -mfast-indirect-calls option for 32-bit kernel
 builds

commit d26a7730b5874a5fa6779c62f4ad7c5065a94723 upstream.

In spite of what the GCC manual says, the -mfast-indirect-calls has
never been supported in the 64-bit parisc compiler. Indirect calls have
always been done using function descriptors irrespective of the
-mfast-indirect-calls option.

Recently, it was noticed that a function descriptor was always requested
when the -mfast-indirect-calls option was specified. This caused
problems when the option was used in  application code and doesn't make
any sense because the whole point of the option is to avoid using a
function descriptor for indirect calls.

Fixing this broke 64-bit kernel builds.

I will fix GCC but for now we need the attached change. This results in
the same kernel code as before.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin at bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/parisc/Makefile | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile
index 7187664..5db8882 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ cflags-y	:= -pipe

 # These flags should be implied by an hppa-linux configuration, but they
 # are not in gcc 3.2.
-cflags-y	+= -mno-space-regs -mfast-indirect-calls
+cflags-y	+= -mno-space-regs
+
+# -mfast-indirect-calls is only relevant for 32-bit kernels.
+ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
+cflags-y	+= -mfast-indirect-calls
+endif

 # Currently we save and restore fpregs on all kernel entry/interruption paths.
 # If that gets optimized, we might need to disable the use of fpregs in the
--
1.9.1