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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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-19 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ 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
2012-01-20 13:35     ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-01-20 14:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-19 12:51 Kasatkin, Dmitry

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