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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:41:30AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/16/2013 11:46 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >Adding Peter Anvin to the people, just in case he sees what's wrong
> > >with the system call stub generation that keeps excessively old object
> > >files around. If it's easy to fix, it might be worth trying to make it
> > >ok to switch from i386 to x86-64 and back in the same tree.
> > 
> > I have not been able to reproduce this; it seems to Just 
> > Work[TM].
> > 
> > The syscall header stuff is definitely not to blame: it 
> > doesn't even *see* the CONFIG_ settings; instead they are only 
> > used to determine which subset of files to create, but the 
> > files themselves are configuration-independent.  This is by 
> > design.
> > 
> > As such, without an actual known to fail test case there isn't 
> > much I can do.
> 
> I tried (based on the versions given by Paul):
> 
>   git checkout v3.7-rc7
>   make ARCH=i386 defconfig
>   make -j64 bzImage
> 
>   git checkout v3.8-rc7
>   make ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig
>   make -j64 bzImage
> 
> but it built just fine. The build bug might depend on the 
> specific config file, or might depend on tooling details?

The problem is that the git tree I used is one that I build out of
very infrequently, and so all I really know about the previous
build was that it was done a long time ago.  :-(

							Thanx, Paul