linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2010-01-28-01-36 uploaded (elfcore/compat_binfmt

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Message-Id: <20100128124829.cb4bccb9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:48:29 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-01-28-01-36 uploaded (elfcore/compat_binfmt_elf)

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:36:55 -0800 akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:

> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-01-28-01-36 has been uploaded to
> 
>    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> 
> and will soon be available at
> 
>    git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git
> 
> It contains the following patches against 2.6.33-rc5:


> elf-coredump-replace-elf_core_extra_-macros-by-functions.patch
> elf-coredump-make-offset-calculation-process-and-writing-process-explicit.patch
> elf-coredump-add-extended-numbering-support.patch


These patches can cause build errors.  See arch/x86/Kconfig:

config IA32_EMULATION
	bool "IA32 Emulation"
	depends on X86_64
	select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF

COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF can be enabled (selected) even when BINFMT_ELF is not
enabled (due to "select" not looking at dependencies).

That causes the kernel/Makefile of elfcore not to be built:

diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile~elf-coredump-replace-elf_core_extra_-macros-by-functions arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile~elf-coredump-replace-elf_core_extra_-macros-by-functions
+++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMAR)		+= pci-dma.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SWIOTLB)		+= pci-swiotlb.o
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF)	+= elfcore.o

since only COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF is enabled but not BINFMT_ELF.

So then the errors are:

fs/built-in.o: In function `elf_core_dump':
compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x551e8): undefined reference to `elf_core_extra_phdrs'
compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x55413): undefined reference to `elf_core_extra_data_size'
compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x556c4): undefined reference to `elf_core_write_extra_phdrs'
compat_binfmt_elf.c:(.text+0x559fd): undefined reference to `elf_core_write_extra_data'



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