---

yaml
---
r: 166197
b: refs/heads/master
c: 144ef90
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  166195: 5809ea6
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ad08587e5df17e192a57437bfedaba125998de25
+refs/heads/master: 144ef909c09b60c97b3c20b69ea30abd1e60e54d

trunk/arch/powerpc/Makefile

@@ -164,6 +164,17 @@ PHONY += $(BOOT_TARGETS)
 
 boot := arch/$(ARCH)/boot
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE),y)
+quiet_cmd_relocs_check = CALL    $<
+      cmd_relocs_check = perl $< "$(OBJDUMP)" "$(obj)/vmlinux"
+
+PHONY += relocs_check
+relocs_check: arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl vmlinux
+	$(call cmd,relocs_check)
+
+zImage: relocs_check
+endif
+
 $(BOOT_TARGETS): vmlinux
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) ARCH=ppc64 $(build)=$(boot) $(patsubst %,$(boot)/%,$@)
 

trunk/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Copyright © 2009 IBM Corporation
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+# 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This script checks the relcoations of a vmlinux for "suspicious"
+# relocations.
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+if ($#ARGV != 1) {
+	die "$0 [path to objdump] [path to vmlinux]\n";
+}
+
+# Have Kbuild supply the path to objdump so we handle cross compilation.
+my $objdump = shift;
+my $vmlinux = shift;
+my $bad_relocs_count = 0;
+my $bad_relocs = "";
+my $old_binutils = 0;
+
+open(FD, "$objdump -R $vmlinux|") or die;
+while (<FD>) {
+	study $_;
+
+	# Only look at relcoation lines.
+	next if (!/\s+R_/);
+
+	# These relocations are okay
+	next if (/R_PPC64_RELATIVE/ or /R_PPC64_NONE/ or
+	         /R_PPC64_ADDR64\s+mach_/);
+
+	# If we see this type of relcoation it's an idication that
+	# we /may/ be using an old version of binutils.
+	if (/R_PPC64_UADDR64/) {
+		$old_binutils++;
+	}
+
+	$bad_relocs_count++;
+	$bad_relocs .= $_;
+}
+
+if ($bad_relocs_count) {
+	print "WARNING: $bad_relocs_count bad relocations\n";
+	print $bad_relocs;
+}
+
+if ($old_binutils) {
+	print "WARNING: You need at binutils >= 2.19 to build a ".
+	      "CONFIG_RELCOATABLE kernel\n";
+}