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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 May 2015 19:59:14 +0000 (21:59 +0200)
commit1e1c70059e1696ef00785ca7273ced99475a19c0
treec13317c5dc6e3e65b0b77f75a31ac2378e9f1039
parentb3c0fce7ab8fa29f5e72a5af7debd104f64e1e20
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile