Re: linux-next: ia64 allmodconfig

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:14:38PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > I just did a git-checkout of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
> > linux-next/master and got commit:
> > e85df409b2ad8528fa772379393c81406c417bbf
> 
> Hmmm that looks like the commit for next-20080821, but I see build
> failures for 0820 and 0821.
> 
> Using "git diff next-20080819 next-20080820" shows the only
> change in arch/ia64 is an innocuous looking one to arch/ia64/kvm/irq.h
> The only plausible looking stuff is the slab.h and slub_def.h changes
> because the first error is reported in efi_initialize_iomem_resources()
> which does make a kzalloc() call ... and commenting out the kzalloc()
> moves the first reported error out of this function to some other one.
> 
> I see the same error with the generic_defconfig ... so it
> isn't special to allmodconfig.
> 
> I'm using gcc version:
>  gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
> 
> So this might be a 3.x vs. 4.x issue.
> 
> Heck if I can see where these "__ia64_save_stack_nonlocal" symbols
> are coming from though.  I thought that there is some cpp
> trickery concatenating tokens ... but a "cc -E" of efi.c didn't
> give me any clues :-(

Not sure if this is helpful, but google pointed me at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org/msg116574.html

Robin