From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: dmsetup fails on latest kernel Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:58:04 -0800 Message-ID: <4F1875CC.4010006@linux.intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Kasatkin, Dmitry" , device-mapper development , LKML List-Id: dm-devel.ids 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 >> 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