Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933033AbXH3Sro (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759481AbXH3Srf (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:35 -0400 Received: from mail.trixing.net ([87.230.125.58]:54590 "EHLO mail.trixing.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753974AbXH3Srd (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:33 -0400 Message-ID: <46D7108D.9090104@l4x.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:46:37 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070329 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Adrian Bunk , Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org References: <46D5902C.1040905@googlemail.com> <46D5B544.4030708@l4x.org> <20070829234734.GA26410@stusta.de> <46D66D49.20300@l4x.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.195 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jdi@l4x.org Subject: Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:51:29 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.trixing.net) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1593 Lines: 38 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jan Dittmer wrote: > >> Christoph Lameter wrote: >>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> >>>> Christoph, is your fix in -mm suitable for 2.6.23, or how else should this >>>> regression be fixed for 2.6.23? >>> Looks like this is just alpha and a certain particular compiler version? >> binutils 2.15.95, gcc 3.3.6 and I could update to 4.0.4 or something >> more recent I guess. And yes, it's only alpha. >> >> Of which file do you want the objdump? > > The one where the link fails. Dump the code around the unresolved symbol. Here is one of them: 19380: 10 00 1f 20 lda v0,16 19384: e6 ff ff c3 br 19320 * Generate a link failure. Would be great if we could * do something to stop the compile here. */ extern void __kmalloc_size_too_large(void); __kmalloc_size_too_large(); 19388: 00 00 7d a7 ldq t12,0(gp) 1938c: 00 40 5b 6b jsr ra,(t12),19390 19390: 00 00 ba 27 ldah gp,0(ra) 19394: 00 00 bd 23 lda gp,0(gp) 19398: d6 ff ff c3 br 192f4 1939c: 00 00 fe 2f unop Jan - 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/