On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:01 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, I think I'm getting close to releasing a real 2.6.23. Things seem to
> > have calmed down, and I think Thomas Gleixner may have found the
> > suspend/resume regression that has dogged us for a while, so I'm feeling
> > happy about things.
> >
> > Of course, me feeling happy is usually immediately followed by some nasty
> > person finding new problems, but I'll just ignore that and enjoy the
> > feeling anyway, however fleeting it may be.
>
> I don't want to be the "nasty" person, but one of my machines doesn't
> like 2.6.23-rc8. Infact, 2.6.23-rc1 was the first kernel this is broken.
> (I didn't get hands on this machine till now).
>
> Since my other x86-64 machines are doing fine, I am going to blame it
> on my machine specific config :)
>
> Thanks,
> Badari
>
>
> elm3a242:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc8 # make -j4 bzImage
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> SYSCALL arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-
> linux/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff700797]
> overlaps section .dynstr [ffffffffff7004b8 -> ffffffffff700510]
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso] Error 2
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
<goes fishing in Andi's tree>
box:/usr/src/25> grep vdso series
x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-compat-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-64bit-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
fix-discrepancy-between-vdso-based-gettimeofday-and-sys_gettimeofday.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch looks likely - can you test it please?
Increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils
For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so
increase the text offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
+#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x600
-
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