Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

Eric Dumazet
2007-03-27T20:38:54Z

Andrew Morton a écrit :
> 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.
>

Maybe yes... 1024 bytes to code vsyscall0 is tricky.

But then I remember I posted a patch some time ago to remove __jiffie from
vsyscall page... no answer yet from Andi.