From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755708Ab0I1Qcl (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:32:41 -0400 Received: from db3ehsobe006.messaging.microsoft.com ([213.199.154.144]:13354 "EHLO DB3EHSOBE006.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755007Ab0I1Qcj (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:32:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 906 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:32:39 EDT X-SpamScore: -14 X-BigFish: VPS-14(zzbb2cK1432N98dNzz1202hzz8275bhz32i2a8h43h61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-WSS-ID: 0L9GT8V-01-AEK-02 X-M-MSG: Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:19:12 +0200 From: Andreas Herrmann To: Jan Beulich CC: "Seidel, Conny" , "borislav.petkov" , "mingo@elte.hu" , LKML , "hpa@zytor.com" Subject: Re: current TIP/master doesn't build on SLES10 Message-ID: <20100928161912.GF5003@loge.amd.com> References: <20100928163136.7a2355d0@marah.osrc.amd.com> <4CA22F1D020000780001961F@vpn.id2.novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA22F1D020000780001961F@vpn.id2.novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Reverse-DNS: unknown Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 28.09.10 at 16:31, Conny Seidel wrote: > > Hi > > > > compiling TIP/master (44bc8c4f500fce7263803b4acd016fa03cf8a91a) on > > SLES10 fails with the following build error: > > > > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages: > > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments > > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.o] Error 1 > > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2 > > make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2 > > > > I've bisected it to commit df5d1874ce1a1f0e0eceff4fa3a9d45620243a68. > > > > Reverting it fixes the issue. > > > > I know that this is caused by binutils 2.16.91.0.5 which is distributed > > with SLES10. > > I'm generally doing almost all of my work on SLE10, and have not run > into this issue. Are you sure you've got it fully updated? BTW, the build error looks similar to the build problem fixed by commit e8a0e27662186f8856a0a6242e7a8386c9a64a53 Author: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri Nov 21 15:11:32 2008 +0100 x86: clean up after: move entry_64.S register saving out of the macros, fix Andreas