From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754680Ab1ASP1X (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:27:23 -0500 Received: from racecourse.oldelvet.net ([93.93.128.81]:40321 "EHLO racecourse.oldelvet.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754155Ab1ASP1U (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:27:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4D3702D5.5050502@oldelvet.org.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:27:17 +0000 From: Richard Mortimer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: rostedt@goodmis.org, 609371@bugs.debian.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Subject: Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36 References: <1295273486.16479.15.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110117.213448.226787087.davem@davemloft.net> <20110117.220039.71097651.davem@davemloft.net> <20110117.220857.104046847.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20110117.220857.104046847.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18/01/2011 06:08, David Miller wrote: > From: David Miller > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:00:39 -0800 (PST) > >> ftrace: Remove unnecessary alignment tag from ftrace_event_call. >> >> It's completely unnecessary and causes problems on platforms >> where this tag down-aligns the structure's alignment. >> >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > ... > > Ok, unless we can explain why these alignments are needed at all, we > should kill all of them: > > -------------------- > tracing: Remove unnecessary __aligned__(4) tag from trace data. > > It's completely unnecessary and causes problems on platforms > where this tag down-aligns the structure's alignment. > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > For reference my build with the above patch completed last night. That does boot on my sparc64 Sun Fire V120 so at the very least the relocation issues go away. The machine wasn't very happy and networking/nfs was a little upset but I'll wait until the patchset is more refined before investigating further and trying to work out if it is related or not. Regards Richard