On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:26:42 +0200 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:54:12 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:54:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > 2.6.23-rc8 and 2.6.23-rc8-git4 fail to build on one of my test
> > > machines, with:
> > >
> > > drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x780e): In function `dmi_id_init':
> > > : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much'
> > >
> > > The code is allocating sizeof(struct device) so it really shouldn't be
> > > a problem. I have no idea what's wrong. That's on i386, very old
> > > machine (Pentium 166MMX / Intel TX chipset), with gcc 3.2.3 and
> > > binutils 2.14.90.0.6. 2.6.22.9 compiles fine on the same system (but it
> > > doesn't include dmi-id so it's not very surprising).
> > >
> > > .config attached.
> >
> > More information: building the same config on a much more recent system
> > works fine. This seems to point at a toolchain issue.
>
> More information:
> * No improvement in 2.6.23-rc9.
> * Building the same config on a different system with the same
> toolchain, fails the same. So it's not just one system acting weirdly,
> the bug can be reproduced.
> * I tried arbitrary values for the kzalloc() in dmi-id.c, the bottom line
> is that anything above 64 bytes triggers the bug.
> * The same kzalloc() in a different driver doesn't trigger the bug.
>
> I'm puzzled, no idea what to try next.
>
Yeah, the tricks we play in there do fool some versions of gcc, and you see
the result.
Roland came up with this:
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static __always_inline struct kmem_cache
*kmalloc_slab(size_t size)
* testing it here shouldn't be needed. But some versions of gcc need
* help.
*/
- if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && index < 0) {
+ if (__builtin_constant_p(index) && index < 0) {
/*
* Generate a link failure. Would be great if we could
* do something to stop the compile here.
Does it fix things for you?
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