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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (powerpc related)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:39:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340325596.9531.1.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120621114354.GG20973@bubble.grove.modra.org>

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 21:13 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:18:39PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Linker bug.  That's not a sibling call, but a normal function return
> > via an out-of-line register restore function.
> 
> I couldn't see how this might be occurring, then I remembered the
> kernel has this horrible practise of using ld -r to package object
> files.  So linker generated functions might be munged together with
> other functions.  Does this help?  (It won't if the kernel is
> providing its own save/restore functions.)

The kernel does provide its own AIUI.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-22  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-20  7:50 linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (powerpc related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-20 10:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21  5:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21  6:24   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21  7:07     ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21  7:38       ` Michael Ellerman
2012-06-21 10:48         ` Alan Modra
2012-06-21 11:43           ` Alan Modra
2012-06-22  0:39             ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2012-06-21  7:29   ` Gabriel Paubert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-28  8:49 Stephen Rothwell
2011-12-28 10:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-02  8:25   ` Grant Likely
2012-01-02  8:39     ` Grant Likely
2010-09-03  3:24 Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-17  4:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-16  7:19 Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-19  0:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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