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Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:59:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, x86@kernel.org,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
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Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and
> > predictible ways. H.J. stated:
> 
> s/predictable/unpredictable?

No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.

Thanks,

	tglx