Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757375AbaGBV2i (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:28:38 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35614 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753848AbaGBV2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:28:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:28:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [BUILD BUG][3.16-rc3] Error: too many copied sections (max = 13) Message-Id: <20140702142836.084d1ad63b049d53a2f51218@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140701000913.5ea51f77@gandalf.local.home> References: <20140701000913.5ea51f77@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:09:13 -0400 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. 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... -- 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/