linux-kernel - Re: [BUILD BUG][3.16-rc3] Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:00:32 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUILD BUG][3.16-rc3] Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> Testing the latest kernel (3.16-rc3) I hit this build bug:
>
>   VDSO2C  arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c
> Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)
> /arch/x86/vdso/Makefile:61: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c' failed
> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1
> /scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso' failed
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
>
> I bisected it down to this commit:
>
> commit 0e3727a8839c988a3c56170bc8da76d55a16acad
> Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
> Date:   Wed Jun 18 15:59:49 2014 -0700
>
>     x86/vdso: Remove some redundant in-memory section headers
>
> When I revert this commit, it compiles fine.
>
> I built my gcc and binutils from their sources unmodified:
>
> gcc 4.6.0
>
> binutils 2.21

I managed to munge the binutils sources enough to build binutils 2.21.
This seems to be a binutils bug: ld generates an empty .rela.dyn.
Fortunately, it's not generating a DT_RELA dynamic entry.

I'm not quite sure what to do about this.  I could discard it, but
then I might want to make sure that, once I've discarded it, I don't
put any other sections in, since I don't know how well gdb can handle
section renumbering.  Maybe there's nothing to worry about here.

Or I could admit defeat and put the vvar area before the vdso text.

--Andy
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