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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Copyright © 2015 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 relocations of a vmlinux for "suspicious"
+# relocations.
+
+# based on relocs_check.pl
+# Copyright © 2009 IBM Corporation
+
+if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
+	echo "$0 [path to objdump] [path to vmlinux]" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# Have Kbuild supply the path to objdump so we handle cross compilation.
+objdump="$1"
+vmlinux="$2"
+
+bad_relocs=$(
+"$objdump" -R "$vmlinux" |
+	# Only look at relocation lines.
+	grep -E '\<R_' |
+	# These relocations are okay
+	# On PPC64:
+	#	R_PPC64_RELATIVE, R_PPC64_NONE
+	#	R_PPC64_ADDR64 mach_<name>
+	# On PPC:
+	#	R_PPC_RELATIVE, R_PPC_ADDR16_HI,
+	#	R_PPC_ADDR16_HA,R_PPC_ADDR16_LO,
+	#	R_PPC_NONE
+	grep -F -w -v 'R_PPC64_RELATIVE
+R_PPC64_NONE
+R_PPC_ADDR16_LO
+R_PPC_ADDR16_HI
+R_PPC_ADDR16_HA
+R_PPC_RELATIVE
+R_PPC_NONE' |
+	grep -E -v '\<R_PPC64_ADDR64[[:space:]]+mach_'
+)
+
+if [ -z "$bad_relocs" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+num_bad=$(echo "$bad_relocs" | wc -l)
+echo "WARNING: $num_bad bad relocations"
+echo "$bad_relocs"
+
+# If we see this type of relocation it's an idication that
+# we /may/ be using an old version of binutils.
+if echo "$bad_relocs" | grep -q -F -w R_PPC64_UADDR64; then
+	echo "WARNING: You need at least binutils >= 2.19 to build a CONFIG_RELOCATABLE kernel"
+fi