[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:41:48PM -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> 
>     powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling
> 
> to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> which can be found at:
> 
>     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

Please also add this followup patch by Anton:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/kmod/depmod-Ignore_PowerPC64_ABIv2_.TOC.symbol.patch

depmod: Ignore PowerPC64 ABIv2 .TOC. symbol

The .TOC. symbol on the PowerPC64 ABIv2 identifies the GOT
pointer, similar to how other architectures use _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.

This is not a symbol that needs relocation, and should be ignored
by depmod.

---
 tools/depmod.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/depmod.c b/tools/depmod.c
index 6e9bb4d..a2e07c1 100644
--- a/tools/depmod.c
+++ b/tools/depmod.c
@@ -2153,6 +2153,8 @@ static void depmod_add_fake_syms(struct depmod *depmod)
 	depmod_symbol_add(depmod, "__this_module", true, 0, NULL);
 	/* On S390, this is faked up too */
 	depmod_symbol_add(depmod, "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_", true, 0, NULL);
+	/* On PowerPC64 ABIv2, .TOC. is more or less _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ */
+	depmod_symbol_add(depmod, "TOC.", true, 0, NULL);
 }

 static int depmod_load_symvers(struct depmod *depmod, const char *filename)
--
2.5.0

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM