From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:43:11 -0700 Message-ID: <53878DCF.2050501@zytor.com> References: <2c4fcf45524162a34d87fdda1eb046b2a5cecee7.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:32790 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932182AbaE2Tng (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2014 15:43:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andy Lutomirski , Paul Gortmaker Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" On 05/29/2014 12:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Paul Gortmaker > wrote: >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:25 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski >> wrote: >>> Commit-ID: 6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829 >>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829 >>> Author: Andy Lutomirski >>> AuthorDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:19:34 -0700 >>> Committer: H. Peter Anvin >>> CommitDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:18:51 -0700 >>> >>> x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C >> >> Just a heads up in case it hasn't been mentioned already; >> the x86 builds in linux-next which IIRC are done as cross >> compile on a powerpc box are failing as follows: >> >> VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c >> /bin/sh: line 1: 15995 Segmentation fault arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c >> arch/x86/vdso/vdso64.so.dbg arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c >> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 139 >> >> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/11265454/ >> > > Egads. This wouldn't be a big-endian host by any chance? > He said PowerPC; most but not all PowerPC systems are bigendian. Seems like a fair assumption to make. -hpa