On (22/08/07 11:10), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:17:38 +0100 > Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ > > > > > > - git-ixgbe.patch got dropped - git-net.patch destroyed it > > > > > > - then git-net got dropped as it doesn't work > > > > > > - the -mm import-to-git engine still isn't working > > > > > > > >From elm3b6 on test.kernel.org, we get the following build error > > > > 08/22/07-07:01:07 building kernel - make bzImage > > CHK include/linux/version.h > > UPD include/linux/version.h > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > > UPD include/linux/utsrelease.h > > SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86_64 > > CC arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s > > arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:1: error: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 > > is not between 4 and 12 > > make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 > > make: *** [prepare0] Error 2 > > 08/22/07-07:01:08 Build the kernel. Failed rc = 2 > > 08/22/07-07:01:08 build: Building kernel... Failed rc = 1 > > Failed and terminated the run > > 08/22/07-07:01:08 command complete: (1) rc=126 (TEST ABORT) > > Fatal error, aborting autorun > > > > config file at: http://test.kernel.org/abat/107411/build/dotconfig > > gcc version is 3.4.4 > > > > This does not occur when using a cross-compiler gcc 3.4.0 > > > > x86_64-mm-less-stack-alignment.patch has > > cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=3) > > So we _should_ have detected that gcc didn't like =3, so it > should not have been used. > > I am suspecting a kbuild glitch: asm-offsets.c tends to be handled > in special ways (ie: it's usually the thing which blows up first) > so perhaps it is somehow avoiding the above does-gcc-support-this test. > > Suitable cc's added ;)
Reverting the patch does allow the kernel to build and boot on that machine. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
