Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:57:50 -0800
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:39:33 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   LD      init/built-in.o
> > >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > > ld: section .vsyscall_1 [0000000000645400 -> 000000000064542e] overlaps
> > > section .jiffies [0000000000645400 -> 0000000000645407]
> > > ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section .vsyscall_1 lma 0x645400 overlaps previous
> > > sections
> > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > > 
> > 
> > bah.  Please send .config.
> 
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

The wheel spins around, slows then settles on.... 
time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch!

Presumably because the ____cacheline_aligned made vsyscall_gtod_data_t get
too big.  Or something.