Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751052AbVILQu7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751051AbVILQu7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:50:59 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:9112 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751030AbVILQu6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:50:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:50:56 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: new asm-offsets.h patch problems Message-ID: <20050912165056.GM25261@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 23 On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:00:06AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > So I still don't understand what is really happening here. > > I left my build script running overnight ... working on a > kernel at the 357d596bd... commit (where Linus merged in > my tree last night). This one has your "archprepare" patch > already included. > > Sometimes a build for a config succeeds, and sometimes it > fails. (tiger_defconfig for the last six builds has had a > GOOD, BAD, BAD, BAD, GOOD, GOOD sequence, while bigsur_defconfig > went GOOD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD). This non-determinism > doesn't fit in well with your explanation of missing defines > for PAGE_SIZE etc. There's more, apparently - I'm seeing make # successful full build make C=2 # triggering full rebuild, not just sparse run - 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/