On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:09:13 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > >> Testing the latest kernel (3.16-rc3) I hit this build bug: >> >> VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c >> Error: too many copied sections (max = 13) >> /arch/x86/vdso/Makefile:61: recipe for target >> 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c' failed >> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1 >> /scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso' failed >> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2 >> >> I bisected it down to this commit: >> >> commit 0e3727a8839c988a3c56170bc8da76d55a16acad >> Author: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> >> Date: Wed Jun 18 15:59:49 2014 -0700 >> >> x86/vdso: Remove some redundant in-memory section headers >> >> When I revert this commit, it compiles fine. > > When I revert that I get > > Error: cannot handle memsz != filesz > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2 > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > In file included from include/linux/poll.h:11, > from include/linux/ring_buffer.h:7, > from include/linux/ftrace_event.h:5, > from include/trace/syscall.h:6, > from include/linux/syscalls.h:80, > from kernel/capability.c:17: > > Productivity decline...
I think that patch is a false alarm. It was almost certainly broken a little earlier. Nonetheless, I hereby give up. I'll try to get a patch out today or tomorrow to revert the reordering of vvar and the vdso. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/