From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765578AbXG0BAZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:00:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761153AbXG0A7y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:59:54 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:45062 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759449AbXG0A7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:59:51 -0400 Subject: Re: 07/26 GIT - Build breakage From: Rusty Russell To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Parag Warudkar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Zachary Amsden In-Reply-To: References: <46A924A0.9010501@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:59:24 +1000 Message-Id: <1185497965.12151.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Parag Warudkar wrote: > > > > arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.o: In function `init_IRQ': > > (.text+0xb20): multiple definition of `init_IRQ' > > arch/i386/kernel/i8259.o:(.init.text+0x30): first defined here > > ld: Warning: size of symbol `init_IRQ' changed from 66 in > > arch/i386/kernel/i8259.o to 14 in arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.o > > make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o] Error 1 > > make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 > > Ok, it seems that some versions of gcc/binutils have problems with the > games that paravirt introduced with the "weak" thing. > > I'm not entirely surprised. That stuff was trying to be too clever by > half. > > Rusty? Sure, but this was in .21 and .22. This config is from 2.6.21.5, in fact. Parag, does your arch/i386/kernel/i8259.c look like this around line 384? If not, perhaps it's a mis-merge for you? /* Overridden in paravirt.c */ void init_IRQ(void) __attribute__((weak, alias("native_init_IRQ"))); void __init native_init_IRQ(void) { Thanks, Rusty.