Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754114Ab1CPUxi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:53:38 -0400 Received: from smtp05.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.127]:30917 "EHLO smtp.smtpout.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753512Ab1CPUxb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:53:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4D812349.1050501@free.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:53:29 +0100 From: Eric Valette Reply-To: eric.valette@free.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110309 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Typo in linux-2.6.38/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S References: <4D80B7EE.40706@Free.fr> <20110316195210.GA14675@home.goodmis.org> <4D8118F7.5060107@free.fr> <1300306954.16880.51.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4D811E5A.7080201@free.fr> <1300308282.16880.57.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1300308282.16880.57.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> 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: 1487 Lines: 44 On 16/03/2011 21:44, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 21:32 +0100, Eric Valette wrote: > > >>> The old binutils never complained. >> >> Anyway this show once again that the world like symetry and you better >> remember it ;-) (lock/unlock, malloc free, ...) > > Right, but it should be a warning not an error. If it worked before, why > not work now and just warn about it. This "BUG" existed forever in the > kernel, and its in more than one place. Having the compiler crash on the > first instance means you need to fix it and run the compiler again to > find the next instance and so on. Yes like any other name change in a .h file with incompatible function signature... The exact error message is a complaint about the .size directive not being a "constant"... > binutils made a fatal error in making this a bug and not an warning. > >> >> Probably a stable candidate for 2.6.38.1 > > Perhaps, but what about all older kernels. Now this version of binutils > does not work for bisecting. I guess its binutils git of the 2011/03/02 As far as I'm concerned I only found one occurence on one machine although I compiled tree 2.6.38 kernels for different machines. because its under the CONFIG_KVM_GUEST flag --eric -- 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/