Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc8 (build failure from -rc1)

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To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <ak@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 1:02 pm

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:01 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> wrote:


<goes fishing in Andi's tree>

box:/usr/src/25> grep vdso series                          
x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-compat-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-64bit-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
fix-discrepancy-between-vdso-based-gettimeofday-and-sys_gettimeofday.patch


x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch looks likely - can you test it please?




Increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils

For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so
increase the text offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
+#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x600

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Messages in current thread:
Linux 2.6.23-rc8, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Sep 24, 8:46 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc8 (build failure from -rc1), Badari Pulavarty, (Tue Sep 25, 12:57 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc8 (build failure from -rc1), Andrew Morton, (Tue Sep 25, 1:02 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc8 (build failure from -rc1), Badari Pulavarty, (Tue Sep 25, 1:22 pm)