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powerpc/le: Avoid creatng R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocations for modules. 

When building modules with a native le toolchain the linker will
generate R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocations when it's safe to omit saving r2 on
a plt call.  This isn't helpful in the conext of a kernel module and the
kernel will fail to load those modules with an error like:
	nf_conntrack: Unknown ADD relocation: 109

This patch tells the linker to avoid createing R_PPC64_TOCSAVE
relocations allowing modules to load.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Tony Breeds 2014-03-12 15:12:01 +11:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ override CROSS32AS += -mlittle-endian
LDEMULATION := lppc
GNUTARGET := powerpcle
MULTIPLEWORD := -mno-multiple
KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-save-toc-indirect)
else
ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn,-mbig-endian),y)
override CC += -mbig-endian