Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757474AbYAHJ1q (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:27:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754768AbYAHJ1i (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:27:38 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:50212 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754281AbYAHJ1h (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:27:37 -0500 Message-ID: <478341E9.9000703@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:57:05 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Organization: IBM User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kamalesh Babulal CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bunk@kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com, Andy Whitcroft 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> <47833231.3080801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <47833231.3080801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2109 Lines: 60 Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > 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. > Hi, Andrew, We tried the following, generated stabs information. The size of struct device is 560 bytes. We found that dead code was not being eliminated (__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much), even though no one called that function. I suspect builtin_constant_p() and dead code elimination as the root causes of this error. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh 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/