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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:52:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190716185218.GB15080@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190716181324.GA41555@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and
> > > > predictible ways. H.J. stated:
> > > 
> > > s/predictable/unpredictable?
> > 
> > No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
> > and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.
> 
> Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as:
> 
>  "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random
>   but also in more predictible ways."

<bikeshedding>
How about:

The gold linker has known issues of failing for certain configurations.

</bikeshedding>

					- Ted
					

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-16 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-16 12:47 kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-16 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-16 14:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-07-16 15:59   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-16 18:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2019-07-16 18:46       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-16 18:52       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-07-29 17:06     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2019-07-16 17:06 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-16 18:59   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-16 19:47     ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-16 19:59       ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-16 21:20         ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-16 22:25           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-16 23:37             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-07-17  6:54       ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-17  7:57         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-20  9:12           ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-20  9:34             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-20 10:13               ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-20 10:54                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-20 10:59                   ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-23  1:30             ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-23  6:41               ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-23  8:17                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-29  2:27                   ` Masahiro Yamada

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