Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758108AbYAHIU2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:20:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbYAHIUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:20:15 -0500 Received: from e28smtp05.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.5]:36458 "EHLO e28esmtp05.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750902AbYAHIUN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:20:13 -0500 Message-ID: <47833231.3080801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:50:01 +0530 From: Kamalesh Babulal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071023) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , bunk@kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com, Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much References: <478200A4.4090707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080107100733.3655f74f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080107100733.3655f74f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1733 Lines: 51 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error >> >> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >> GEN .version >> CHK include/linux/compile.h >> UPD include/linux/compile.h >> CC init/version.o >> LD init/built-in.o >> LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >> drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8d76): In function `dmi_id_init': >> : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' >> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 >> >> >> # gcc --version >> gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-59) >> >> This was reported by Adrian Bunk http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/39 > > That's odd. afacit the only kmalloc in dmi_id_init() is > > dmi_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dmi_dev), GFP_KERNEL); > > and even gcc-3.2.3 should be able to get that right. > > Could you please a) verify that simply removing that line fixes the build > error and then b) try to find some way of fixing it? > > Try replacing `sizeof(*dmi_dev)' with `sizeof(struct dmi_device_attribute)' > and any other tricks you can think of to try to make the compiler process > the code differently. > removing the line fixes the issue, but changing the sizeof(*dmi_dev) to sizeof(struct device) is not helping. -- 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/