linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at kernel/kallsyms.c:222!

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:58:24 +0800
From:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...ics.com>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@....com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at kernel/kallsyms.c:222!

2013/11/12 Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:15:29PM +0000, Jonathan Austin wrote:
>>> I've tested the patch below and it solves the ARM side of things - so
>>> gives you an option other than a complete revert. Happy to put this in to
>>> RMK's patch system if you'd prefer not to have to revert and he's happy
>>> with the patch.
>>
>> I think this is the right solution because it then means that this symbol
>> has the same meaning whether on MMU or !MMU - and getting rid of these
>> kinds of gratuitous variances are the only way that !MMU is going to
>> become less fragile.
>
> The patch only fixes problem on arm, and other !MMU&&!ARM archs
> should be affected too.
>
> Also there is no CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET defined for some ARCHs,
> such as 64bit ARCHs.
>
> Currently, I suggest to filter only on ARM as attachment patch if we plan
> to merge Jonathan's patch, otherwise a more complicated approach has
> to be figured out  to do the filter(such as, define a readonly symbol in
> kernel to store PAGE_OFFSET, and let scripts/kallsyms use it for
> filtering).

Hi Ming,
You missed "; then" in the end of if statement in your patch.

So I got below error with your patch:
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 87: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
make: *** [vmlinuxclean] Error 2

Regards,
Axel
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