On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:01 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ok, I think I'm getting close to releasing a real 2.6.23. Things seem to > > > have calmed down, and I think Thomas Gleixner may have found the > > > suspend/resume regression that has dogged us for a while, so I'm feeling > > > happy about things. > > > > > > Of course, me feeling happy is usually immediately followed by some nasty > > > person finding new problems, but I'll just ignore that and enjoy the > > > feeling anyway, however fleeting it may be. > > > > I don't want to be the "nasty" person, but one of my machines doesn't > > like 2.6.23-rc8. Infact, 2.6.23-rc1 was the first kernel this is broken. > > (I didn't get hands on this machine till now). > > > > Since my other x86-64 machines are doing fine, I am going to blame it > > on my machine specific config :) > > > > Thanks, > > Badari > > > > > > elm3a242:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc8 # make -j4 bzImage > > CHK include/linux/version.h > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh > > CHK include/linux/compile.h > > SYSCALL arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so > > /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse- > > linux/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff700797] > > overlaps section .dynstr [ffffffffff7004b8 -> ffffffffff700510] > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so] Error 1 > > make: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso] Error 2 > > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > > > <goes fishing in Andi's tree> > > box:/usr/src/25> grep vdso series > x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch > x86_64-mm-vdso-compat-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch > x86_64-mm-vdso-64bit-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch > fix-discrepancy-between-vdso-based-gettimeofday-and-sys_gettimeofday.patch > > > x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch looks likely - can you test it please? > > > > > Increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils > > For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so > increase the text offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h > +++ linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h > @@ -1 +1 @@ > -#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500 > +#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x600 >
Yep. Thats what I did earlier to fix my build. Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
