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Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 10:57:29 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/34] 4.4.174-stable review
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:46:53PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:41:01AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 2/7/19 6:20 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 2/7/19 3:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.174 release.
> > > > There are 34 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.? If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Responses should be made by Sat Feb? 9 11:30:10 UTC 2019.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Build results:
> > >  ????total: 171 pass: 170 fail: 1
> > > Failed builds:
> > >  ????x86_64:allyesconfig
> > > Qemu test results:
> > >  ????total: 291 pass: 291 fail: 0
> > > 
> > > The build failure is interesting.
> > > 
> > > Relocation offset doesn't fit in 32 bits
> > > make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
> > > make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
> > > make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> > > make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately it doesn't tell me _which_ relocation doesn't fit.
> > > 
> > > I may have to revert to an older compiler. Wouldn't be the first time.
> > > Let me try...
> > > 
> > 
> > Confirmed. This builds fine with gcc-6.5.0 and binutils 2.26.1. Sigh :-(.
> 
> That's really really odd :(
> 
> Let me try this, I only normally build allmodconfig.
> 
Don't bother. I reverted to gcc 6.3.0, where it builds fine.

Matching compiler versions to kernel releases is always challenging.
This isn't the only case where I can not use the latest version 
of gcc.

Guenter