On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:01 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, I think I'm getting close to releasing a real 2.6.23. Things seem to > > have calmed down, and I think Thomas Gleixner may have found the > > suspend/resume regression that has dogged us for a while, so I'm feeling > > happy about things. > > > > Of course, me feeling happy is usually immediately followed by some nasty > > person finding new problems, but I'll just ignore that and enjoy the > > feeling anyway, however fleeting it may be. > > I don't want to be the "nasty" person, but one of my machines doesn't > like 2.6.23-rc8. Infact, 2.6.23-rc1 was the first kernel this is broken. > (I didn't get hands on this machine till now). > > Since my other x86-64 machines are doing fine, I am going to blame it > on my machine specific config :) > > Thanks, > Badari > > > elm3a242:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc8 # make -j4 bzImage > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > SYSCALL arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so > /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse- > linux/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff700797] > overlaps section .dynstr [ffffffffff7004b8 -> ffffffffff700510] > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so] Error 1 > make: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso] Error 2 > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > <goes fishing in Andi's tree> box:/usr/src/25> grep vdso series x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch x86_64-mm-vdso-compat-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch x86_64-mm-vdso-64bit-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch fix-discrepancy-between-vdso-based-gettimeofday-and-sys_gettimeofday.patch x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch looks likely - can you test it please? Increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so increase the text offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h +++ linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h @@ -1 +1 @@ -#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500 +#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x600 - 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/
