Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933299AbXJPHp0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764686AbXJPHpO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:45:14 -0400 Received: from E23SMTP03.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.172]:48053 "EHLO e23smtp03.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764815AbXJPHpM (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:45:12 -0400 Message-ID: <47146BD4.8000608@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:14:20 +0530 From: Kamalesh Babulal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - regression- PowerPC link failure at arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o References: <20071011213126.cf92efb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <471465D8.9030100@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071016002850.4296827e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071016002850.4296827e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2546 Lines: 44 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:48:48 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> The link failure while compiling the kernel with allyesconfig over the lpar, >> which was seen in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/30/2) is still >> seen in 2.6.23-mm1, the link failure is >> >> ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x80c8): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern >> ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x8160): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern >> ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o(.text+0x81c4): sibling call optimization to `.text.init.refok' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `.text.init.refok' extern >> ld: final link failed: Bad value >> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 >> >> # gcc -v >> Using built-in specs. >> Target: powerpc64-suse-linux >> Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.2 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=default32 --enable-secureplt --with-long-double-128 --host=powerpc64-suse-linux >> Thread model: posix >> gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) >> >> ld -v >> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux) >> >> >> Anything I can provide to help diagnose this? >> > > Did we work out which patch is causing this? > - Hi Andrew, No, we did not work out on which patch is causing this ! I will try a bisect to find the patch causing this issue. -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL. - 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/