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arm64: vdso: fix build error when switching from LE to BE
authorArun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:46:03 +0000 (15:16 +0530)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Mon, 4 May 2015 09:50:04 +0000 (11:50 +0200)
commitc74cbd65467dea55558b9c22fbd5ebfb4e95a5a6
tree2c57c4d05dd3a91f63015d3781f7cfc764929613
parentbc6cd5f4d195af0baec777d2faf4697a9cc404f3
arm64: vdso: fix build error when switching from LE to BE

commit 1915e2ad1cf548217c963121e4076b3d44dd0169 upstream.

Building a kernel with CPU_BIG_ENDIAN fails if there are stale objects
from a !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN build. Due to a missing FORCE prerequisite on an
if_changed rule in the VDSO Makefile, we attempt to link a stale LE
object into the new BE kernel.

According to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt, FORCE is required for
if_changed rules and forgetting it is a common mistake, so fix it by
'Forcing' the build of vdso. This patch fixes build errors like these:

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile