From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263130AbTEGMW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 08:22:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263139AbTEGMW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 08:22:59 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:3088 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263130AbTEGMW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 08:22:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:35:08 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Matt Bernstein Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , elenstev@mesatop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm4 Message-ID: <20030507123508.GA6060@averell> References: <1051908541.2166.40.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030502140508.02d13449.akpm@digeo.com> <1051910420.2166.55.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030502164159.4434e5f1.akpm@digeo.com> <20030503025307.GB1541@averell> <20030506143533.GA22907@averell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:27:02PM +0200, Matt Bernstein wrote: > > Will do later today if the above isn't helpful. One other thing I did do > was a make -j19 KBUILD_VERBOSE=0 but I've been told this is completely > safe these days. It tries to patch an instruction past the kernel text. It could be in the discarded .exit.text/.text.exit. With new binutils you should get an link error when this happens, but perhaps yours are too old for that. When you comment these entries out from the DISCARD statement in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S does it go away ? Alternatively use Andrew's latest 2.5.69-mm*, that has the patch too. -Andi