Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752723AbZAFLgZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:36:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752139AbZAFLgD (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:36:03 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:37044 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751995AbZAFLgB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:36:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:35:43 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Jan Beulich Cc: Sam Ravnborg , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , rostedt@goodmis.org, Steven Rostedt , LKML , sparclinux Subject: Re: ftrace breaks sparc64 build Message-ID: <20090106113543.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20090105181922.GA25622@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090105194844.GR28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090105195523.GB6204@uranus.ravnborg.org> <49631BF0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49631BF0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 25 On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:53:04AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > The __crc_... reference is definitely bogus - none should survive with the > new .c->.o rule. Could you find out what object file they originate from? So can you, by use of arcane tool known as "grep"... It's in kernel/softirq.c and that's genksyms parser being fucked in head. Look for TYPEOF_KEYW in parse.y and you'll see. Especially amusing part is a kludge from commit a89a0a2354ae666612968e254d650bfd04f11eb6... > The others look like a tools side behavioral difference, as I never saw any > such. Is this problem sparc32-specific (I tested x86 and ia64 only)? What's > the binutils version used? 2.18.50.0.6. And no, it's not tools side. What it is, AFAICT, is that sparc32 has LDFLAGS_vmlinux = -r, which leaves a metric arseload of relocs that wouldn't have survived into vmlinux otherwise. Look at .rela__ksymtab in .tmp_vmlinux1, for example... -- 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/