Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757479AbaGBUAz (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:00:55 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]:46860 "EHLO mail-lb0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754597AbaGBUAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:00:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140701000913.5ea51f77@gandalf.local.home> References: <20140701000913.5ea51f77@gandalf.local.home> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:00:32 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [BUILD BUG][3.16-rc3] Error: too many copied sections (max = 13) To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Steven Rostedt 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 > 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. > > I built my gcc and binutils from their sources unmodified: > > gcc 4.6.0 > > binutils 2.21 I managed to munge the binutils sources enough to build binutils 2.21. This seems to be a binutils bug: ld generates an empty .rela.dyn. Fortunately, it's not generating a DT_RELA dynamic entry. I'm not quite sure what to do about this. I could discard it, but then I might want to make sure that, once I've discarded it, I don't put any other sections in, since I don't know how well gdb can handle section renumbering. Maybe there's nothing to worry about here. Or I could admit defeat and put the vvar area before the vdso text. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/