Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751721AbWIZHJ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751724AbWIZHJ6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:09:58 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:11499 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751720AbWIZHJ6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:09:58 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86_64 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:09:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Martin Bligh , LKML , Andy Whitcroft References: <45185A93.7020105@google.com> <200609260841.27413.ak@suse.de> <20060926000714.bd12361b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060926000714.bd12361b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609260909.47555.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1397 Lines: 39 On Tuesday 26 September 2006 09:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:41:27 +0200 > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 00:39, Martin Bligh wrote: > > > http://test.kernel.org/abat/49037/debug/test.log.0 > > > > > > AS arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.o > > > LD arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect > > > AS arch/x86_64/boot/setup.o > > > LD arch/x86_64/boot/setup > > > AS arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o > > > CC arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.o > > > OBJCOPY arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin > > > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.data.percpu' to huge (ie negative) file > > > offset 0x804700c0. > > > > Most likely that is the problem. I don't know what patch it could be > > (none of mine have been merged yet). > > That was 2.6.18-mm1 - it has around 300 of "yours" ;) > > > Can you bisect? > > I was unable to reproduce it. Lack of disk space is suspected. I suppose the BFD warning (writing to negative file offset) will cause that. I guess it tried to write ~4GB into the executable. Probably it's a toolchain problem of some sort then. -Andi - 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/