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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: powerpc build failure
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:16:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080612071612.GB28590@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080612170505.6049fa75.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>


* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> > It is, but you need to pass --relax to enable generation of the 
> > trampolines.
> 
> So I tried this (added --relax to LDFLAGS_vmlinux if CONFIG FTRACE was 
> set) and got this;
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: --relax and -r may not be used together
> 
> So, I will disable FTRACE on powerpc for now by removing HAVE_FTRACE 
> from being selected in arch/powerpc/Kconfig.

ugh, please do that hack only privately in your allyesconfig testing and 
do not commit that change to linux-next!

It's not an ftrace bug, this problem is a limitation/bug of the powerpc 
architecture and it appears to me that any kernel feature that brings 
the allyesconfig text size above 32MB on powerpc will trigger this build 
failure.

A few months ago arch/x86 triggered an allyesconfig text size limitation 
at 40MB image size (on 64-bit) and we fixed it instead of disabling the 
feature/driver that happened to bring the image size above 40MB. See 
these commits:

 -------->
 commit 88f3aec7afd9ae3e6f6d221801996b69aad1e3a4
 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 Date:   Thu Feb 21 11:04:11 2008 +0100

    x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImage

 commit 85eb69a16aab5a394ce043c2131319eae35e6493
 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 Date:   Thu Feb 21 12:50:51 2008 +0100

    x86: increase the kernel text limit to 512 MB
 <--------

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-11  9:27 linux-next: powerpc build failure Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-11  9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12  1:38   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-06-12  5:33     ` Alan Modra
2008-06-12  7:05       ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-12  7:16         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-06-12  7:27           ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-12  7:47             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12  7:23         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-12  7:24         ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-12 18:12           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-12  8:15         ` Alan Modra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-10  6:54 Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-10  7:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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