linux-kernel - Re: "Inconsistent kallsyms data" error

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Date:	Sat, 7 Jul 2012 00:48:23 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "Inconsistent kallsyms data" error

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com> wrote:

[...]

>
> There was a recent thread from David Brown on the arm linux mailing list
> ("ARM: two possible fixes for the KALLSYMS build problem"). He tracked
> down the problem to having empty per_cpu sections on a non-smp build.

Actually rmk diagnosed it as the empty per_cpu sections.  See it here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=133267456809502&w=2

Paul.
--

> The alignment of these sections made the symbols jump around and change
> from one build to the next. This particular problem might be ARM
> specific, though.
>
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