From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8 build failure: __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much in dmi_id_init
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:54:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001235412.0737de78@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071001225447.20f989aa@hyperion.delvare>
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:54:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 2.6.23-rc8 and 2.6.23-rc8-git4 fail to build on one of my test
> machines, with:
>
> drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x780e): In function `dmi_id_init':
> : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much'
>
> The code is allocating sizeof(struct device) so it really shouldn't be
> a problem. I have no idea what's wrong. That's on i386, very old
> machine (Pentium 166MMX / Intel TX chipset), with gcc 3.2.3 and
> binutils 2.14.90.0.6. 2.6.22.9 compiles fine on the same system (but it
> doesn't include dmi-id so it's not very surprising).
>
> .config attached.
More information: building the same config on a much more recent system
works fine. This seems to point at a toolchain issue.
--
Jean Delvare
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 20:54 2.6.23-rc8 build failure: __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much in dmi_id_init Jean Delvare
2007-10-01 21:54 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2007-10-02 21:26 ` Jean Delvare
2007-10-04 8:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-04 9:28 ` Jean Delvare
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