Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C

Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-29T19:32:51Z

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:25 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
>> Commit-ID: 6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829
>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829
>> Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
>> AuthorDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:19:34 -0700
>> Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
>> CommitDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:18:51 -0700
>>
>> x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C
>
> Just a heads up in case it hasn't been mentioned already;
> the x86 builds in linux-next which IIRC are done as cross
> compile on a powerpc box are failing as follows:
>
> VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c
> /bin/sh: line 1: 15995 Segmentation fault arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso64.so.dbg arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c
> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 139
>
> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/11265454/
>

Egads. This wouldn't be a big-endian host by any chance?

--Andy