Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error >> >> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >> GEN .version >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >> UPD include/linux/compile.h >> CC init/version.o >> LD init/built-in.o >> LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >> drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8d76): In function `dmi_id_init': >> : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' >> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 >> >> >> # gcc --version >> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-59) >> >> This was reported by Adrian Bunk http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/39 > > That's odd. afacit the only kmalloc in dmi_id_init() is > > dmi_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dmi_dev), GFP_KERNEL); > > and even gcc-3.2.3 should be able to get that right. > > Could you please a) verify that simply removing that line fixes the build > error and then b) try to find some way of fixing it? > > Try replacing `sizeof(*dmi_dev)' with `sizeof(struct dmi_device_attribute)' > and any other tricks you can think of to try to make the compiler process > the code differently. >
removing the line fixes the issue, but changing the sizeof(*dmi_dev) to sizeof(struct device) is not helping. -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL. -- 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/
