I started getting following linking error on amd64 after the 2.6.25
patch floodgates were opened:
[snip]
CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/x86/vdso/built-in.o: In function `init_vdso_vars':
vma.c:(.init.text+0x170): undefined reference to `VDSO64_vgetcpu_mode'
vma.c:(.init.text+0x1a3): undefined reference to `VDSO64_vsyscall_gtod_data'
vma.c:(.init.text+0x1aa): undefined reference to `VDSO64_vgetcpu_mode'
vma.c:(.init.text+0x1d8): undefined reference to `VDSO64_vsyscall_gtod_data'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Bisecting turned up following commit:
2b9c97e16101e8dc2b0810d6f932d475a051d785 is first bad commit
commit 2b9c97e16101e8dc2b0810d6f932d475a051d785
Author: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:41 2008 +0100
x86 vDSO: remove vdso-syms.o
Get rid of vdso-syms.o from the kernel link. We don't need it any more.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To test get the error, just disable 32 bit emulation (IA32_EMULATION)
Cheers,
Priit ;)
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