From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dmsetup fails on latest kernel
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:58:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1875CC.4010006@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwwkjFsVuSZWgasN4e_d9suRV4Afr94NMvNt4R7Ej0gbw@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/19/2012 11:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have bisected the problem...
>>
>> It is introduced by this commit:
>>
>> 303395ac3bf3e2cb488435537d416bc840438fcb is the first bad commit
>> commit 303395ac3bf3e2cb488435537d416bc840438fcb
>> Author: H. Peter Anvin<hpa@linux.intel.com>
>> Date: Fri Nov 11 16:07:41 2011 -0800
>>
>> x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables
>
> Interesting. I just munged the old pre-merge
>
> arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
>
> and the new
>
> arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>
> with some trivial shell scripting, and they are definitely identical.
>
> So the tables look like they match 1:1.
>
> The compat tables match too, except the new list contains the entry
> for bdflush (134), but that's a legacy thing that doesn't matter.
>
> I wonder what else could be going on. Wrong number of system calls
> check? Peter, any ideas?
>
Not off the top of my head. I will try to reproduce this and see what
the problem is. Dmitry, what version of binutils and gcc are you using?
It could be that there is a toolchain problem.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-19 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 13:02 dmsetup fails on latest kernel Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-19 15:56 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-19 16:10 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-19 18:06 ` [dm-devel] " Bryn M. Reeves
2012-01-19 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-19 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-01-20 12:52 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-19 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-19 20:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-20 13:35 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-20 14:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 21:40 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, syscall: Need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC for 32 bits tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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2012-01-19 12:51 dmsetup fails on latest kernel Kasatkin, Dmitry
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