Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752826AbZKUKEC (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:04:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751840AbZKUKEB (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:04:01 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com ([209.85.211.182]:36757 "EHLO mail-yw0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbZKUKD7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:59 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:59 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MQfqddOHzb2T2SDUBT78sgeJSGVMJDbfss7sOyOSMVLG97dskVEnzjTHMS76il5bAS NQzmVxqBcSc9V2TYO0w7wnObAbIRdFC0PQ1cvOvtVK1TwUONWrgUXZsJ1B6t8mBQ40v7 8r9XEYtq8HSksPHsbNzzziU4tKdLFCcjv9lV0= Message-ID: <4B07B9BA.2070607@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:58:18 -0800 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Spicebird/0.7.1 (X11; 2009022519) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soeren Sonnenburg CC: Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: [SOLVED] kernel module loading does not work with binutils-gold (was Re: [Bug #14626] oops on boot starting udev) References: <20091117011455.GA7977@kroah.com> <20091117020451.GA27967@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1258426743.9883.53.camel@no> <20091117040104.GA5792@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1258430807.12721.12.camel@no> <20091119025938.GB20172@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1258793809.4814.4.camel@no> <1258796110.6842.10.camel@no> In-Reply-To: <1258796110.6842.10.camel@no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3942 Lines: 102 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:56 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:59 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:06:47AM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:59:03AM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 18:04 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 05:14:55PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:37:48PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report >>>>>>>>> of recent regressions. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions >>>>>>>>> from 2.6.31. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know >>>>>>>>> (either way). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14626 >>>>>>>>> Subject : oops on boot starting udev >>>>>>>>> Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg >>>>>>>>> Date : 2009-11-14 10:16 (3 days old) >>>>>>>>> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125819380206800&w=4 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This looks like an input core problem, as the evdev module was just >>>>>>>> loaded and died. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Any input developers have any ideas? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hmm, evdev does: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> dev_set_name(&evdev->dev, "event%d", minor); >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not sure how it can go wrong... >>>>>>> >>>>>> Anything I should/could do to narrow it down a bit (apart from >>>>>> bisecting?). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Umm, I looked through the changes between -rc6 and 7 but nothing jumped >>>>> out at me... You don't happen to have any local changes in your tree? >>>>> >>>> Well only the mouse button #1 emulation - though I don't see what could >>>> go wrong there. >>>> >>>> >>> I have been looking through the changes and I really don't see anything >>> suspicious. I am also not hittign this oops on any of my boxes. Any >>> chance you could bisect? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >> Alright so I tried to do a bisect when I noticed that building a knwon >> to work -rc5 did no longer work either. Thought it might be a gcc >> problem (gcc-4.3 here) so upgraded to 4.4 - same thing. >> Then I recognized that it crashes on loading basically *any* module, >> tried tun and applesmc. Attaching the crashes... >> >> I am starting to run out of ideas... >> > > OK, I've found the culprit: binutils-gold > > I build all kernels upto and including -rc6 with the old binutils and > since then have upgraded to binutils gold 2.20-4 which - in contrast to > the old binutils - uses --no-add-needed per default. > > So I suspect it triggers an error(?) in the way how the kernel links > modules: It is now required to provide all needed libraries to the > linker when building the modules. I guess this problem could be worked > around by adding --add-needed to the LDFLAGS_MODULE ... > > Soeren > tough to say... some how your hitting __wait_status during your initial boot. by looking at the comment(in applesmc.c): __wait_status - Wait up to 32ms for the status port to get a certain value * (masked with 0x0f), returning zero if the value is obtained. maybe your hitting a different value because of binutls. (keep in mind I have the latest binutils running on the macbook, but nothing switched to gold during compilation time) Justin P. Mattock -- 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/