linux-kernel - Re: ftrace/MIPS related x86_64 build failure on in Linus' tree

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Message-Id: <20101216090019.639191a1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:00:19 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Reiser <jreiser@...wagon.com>,
	Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@...il.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: ftrace/MIPS related x86_64 build failure on in Linus' tree

Hi Arnaud,

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:45:45 -0500 Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Since October 31 our x86_64 allmodconfig builds have been failing like this:
> >
> > /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.4.3-nolibc/x86_64-linux/bin/x86_64-linux-ld: arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.o: bad reloc symbol index (0x1000000 >= 0x6b) for offset 0x808080 in section `__mcount_loc'
> > arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> >
> I got the same on mips, target was BE, toolchain's host was LE.
> Doesn't https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/2/224 address the issue ? This
> patch does not seem to have reached Linus tree yet.

Thanks for pointing that out.  I wonder how we can push that along.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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