From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1340325596.9531.1.camel@concordia> Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (powerpc related) From: Michael Ellerman To: Alan Modra Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:39:56 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20120621114354.GG20973@bubble.grove.modra.org> References: <20120620175014.a822a766e0f91f7b44f48fa0@canb.auug.org.au> <1340256961.1998.11.camel@concordia> <1340259896.3942.2.camel@pasglop> <1340262473.1998.19.camel@concordia> <1340264307.1998.20.camel@concordia> <20120621104839.GE20973@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20120621114354.GG20973@bubble.grove.modra.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, ppc-dev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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