Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753129AbZAFMjl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:39:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751914AbZAFMjO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:39:14 -0500 Received: from vpn.id2.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:40914 "EHLO vpn.id2.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751828AbZAFMjJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:39:09 -0500 Message-Id: <49635F17.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.0 Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:39:35 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Sam Ravnborg" , "Al Viro" Cc: "David S. Miller" , "Ingo Molnar" , , "Steven Rostedt" , "LKML" , "sparclinux" Subject: Re: ftrace breaks sparc64 build References: <20090105181922.GA25622@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090105194844.GR28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090105195523.GB6204@uranus.ravnborg.org> <49631BF0.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20090106113543.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090106113543.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 24 >>> Al Viro 06.01.09 12:35 >>> >On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:53:04AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: >> 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... That I think can only be taken care of by disallowing the stripping for that arch, i.e. adding a negative dependency to the Kconfig option. Or can anyone think of any other solution? Jan -- 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/