[adding linux-kernel again]
OK, first show us (that is, the mailing list "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org", not

just me) what your "kernel-build-script" looks like.
The beginning of the log files that you sent to me (at end of this email)

is very suspicious looking.  It looks like you are not using the expect kernel

build procedures.
The crash problem (snippet below) is a fault in xor_sse_2() in the function

that tries to choose the best (fastest) xor method.  I would expect other

people to be having a similar problem.  I don't suspect that it's related to

the build problem (Makefile.o), but we need to have you building kernels
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~Randy

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:05:32 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote:
Hi Sam,
This is somewhat of a build regression... a confusing one to me.

Maybe you will know what it's up to.
There's also a kernel boot regression: something in

crypto/xor.c::calibrate_xor_blocks() finds a null pointer.

I can't reproduce it.  [more below]
Werner, for the machine that crashes during boot, please send us

the contents of /proc/cpuinfo.  Thanks.
(BTW, for anyone reading along, vger sees Werner's emails as spam,

so you may receive mail directly from him instead of seeing it on

lkml.)
Werner's kernel-build-script is a large multi-purpose script with
which I can easily reproduce by doing (at kernel top-level dir):
make defconfig

make -B
This does not happen in 2.6.23.  Instead, that sequence just loops

forever with:  (this is what I get:)
make -f /tester/linsrc/linux-2623-pv/Makefile silentoldconfig

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic

mkdir -p include/linux include/config

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/kconfig silentoldconfig

  cat scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped > scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c

  cat scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c_shipped > scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c

  cat scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c_shipped > scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c

  gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/kconfig/.zconf.tab.o.d -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer   -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -Iscripts/kconfig -c -o scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c

  gcc  -o scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf.o scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o -lncursesw

scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86_64/Kconfig

make -f /tester/linsrc/linux-2623-pv/Makefile silentoldconfig

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic

mkdir -p include/linux include/config

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/kconfig silentoldconfig

  cat scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped > scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c

  cat scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c_shipped > scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c

  cat sc...
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