Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86_64

Andrew Morton
2006-09-26T07:07:25Z

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:41:27 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 00:39, Martin Bligh wrote:
> > http://test.kernel.org/abat/49037/debug/test.log.0
> >
> > AS arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.o
> > LD arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect
> > AS arch/x86_64/boot/setup.o
> > LD arch/x86_64/boot/setup
> > AS arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o
> > CC arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.o
> > OBJCOPY arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.data.percpu' to huge (ie negative) file
> > offset 0x804700c0.
>
> Most likely that is the problem. I don't know what patch it could be
> (none of mine have been merged yet).

That was 2.6.18-mm1 - it has around 300 of "yours" ;)

> Can you bisect?

I was unable to reproduce it. Lack of disk space is suspected.