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    arm64: vdso: fix build error when switching from LE to BE · 8b0caebc
    Arun Chandran authored
    commit 1915e2ad 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: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
    8b0caebc
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