On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:41:05PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Hello-
>
> 2.6.23-rc1 breaks the build for 64-bit powerpc for me (using
> maple_defconfig):
>
> LD vmlinux.o
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: dynreloc miscount for
> kernel/built-in.o, section .opd
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: can not edit opd Bad value
> make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
>
> This is on a i386 host with:
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
> GNU ld version 2.16.1
>
> Reverting the following commit fixes it:
>
> commit 741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue Jul 17 10:54:06 2007 +0200
>
> kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux
>
>
> However, I see a possibly related binutils patch:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/33650
>
> Will there be a kbuild fix for this or should I update my binutils?
I tried searching a bit more to find the culprint.
I narrowed it down to the following change to avoid the breakage:
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index c456c3a..2ea222f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ void drop_slab(void);
extern int randomize_va_space;
#endif
-__attribute__((weak)) const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+//__attribute__((weak)) const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
So seems that something goes a bit fishy when using weak symbols and this
trigges
a binutils bug.
The above line was introdused in the following commit:
commit f269fdd1829acc5e53bf57b145003e5733133f2b
Author: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Sep 27 01:50:23 2006 -0700
[PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place
Move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place (kernel/signal.c).
Currently it's in fs/proc/task_mmu.c, a file that is dependent on both
CONFIG_PROC_FS and CONFIG_MMU being enabled, but it's used from
kernel/signal.c from where it is called unconditionally.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sam
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