From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752246AbaHTQQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:16:50 -0400 Received: from infra.glanzmann.de ([88.198.249.254]:46342 "EHLO infra.glanzmann.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbaHTQQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:16:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:16:45 +0200 From: Thomas Glanzmann To: Vivek Goyal Cc: LKML Subject: Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland Message-ID: <20140820161645.GA25390@glanzmann.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Glanzmann , Vivek Goyal , LKML References: <20140820060423.GA14660@glanzmann.de> <20140820062408.GB14660@glanzmann.de> <20140820125630.GA12786@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140820125630.GA12786@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Vivek, * Vivek Goyal [2014-08-20 15:53]: > A patch is sitting in akpm's tree. That patch puts the new code under > a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. So as long as you don't enable > CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y, you should be fine. This should not impact any of > the existing functionality. Just that you will not get the benefit of > new system call. > http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch > I hope this patch gets merged soon. > In the mean time I am trying to figure out how can I move away from > using -mcmodel=large for purgatory. perfect. I tried the patch and with the patch the kernel compiles again. Cheers, Thomas