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On 10/27/23 05:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:07:26AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 10/24/23 01:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.199 release.
>>> There are 199 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Responses should be made by Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:32:45 +0000.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>
>> Build reference: v5.10.198-200-ge31b6513c43d
>> Compiler version: x86_64-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.4.0
>> Assembler version: GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.40
>>
>> Building x86_64:defconfig ... passed
>> Building x86_64:allyesconfig ... failed
>> --------------
>> Error log:
>> Unsupported relocation type: unknown type rel type name (-1940038754)
>> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:122: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
>> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> x86_64-linux-objcopy: vmlinux: unsupported relocation type 0x9e
>> x86_64-linux-objcopy: vmlinux[.text]: relocation count is negative: bad value
>> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:114: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/Makefile:115: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:274: bzImage] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:192: __sub-make] Error 2
>>
>> No idea what is causing it, but it is persistent. Something odd between
>> compiler/binutils/objcopy.
>>
>> Guess it doesn't matter since the release is out already.
> 
> If the commit that causes this can be figured out, we can revert it.
> 

The final release built fine. I see this happen once in a while but
was never able to figure out what causes it to happen. So far it was
always persistent on a given source but disappeared as soon as something
changed in the code (making it all but impossible to bisect).
Looks like that happened again.

Guenter