Hi all,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:30:57 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/07/16 15:56, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:42:32 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I started seeing this yesterday (2016-1206).
> >> This is on x86_64.
> >>
> >> Anybody know about it?
> >>
> >> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 out of range in
> >> relative mode
> >
> > I got a similar failure starting a few days ago on my powerpc
> > allyesconfig build. I was assuming that it was PowerPC specific, but
> > noone has found a cause yet.
> >
>
> It may just be an invalid randconfig. I modified scripts/kallsyms.c and
> I see this message:
> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 [symbol:
> Tstartup_64] out of range in relative mode
>
> and it makes sense that startup_64 would (or could) be at
> 0xffffffff81000000...
> especially since CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000 and
> (from Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt)
> ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys > 0
>
>
> Ard, what do you think about this?
The similar failure I saw in the powerpc allyesconfig build
kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xc000000000000000 out of range in
relative mode
was caused by commit
8ab2ae655bfe ("default exported asm symbols to zero")
which has been reverted in Linus' tree today.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
