From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755840AbYAHHsZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:48:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750715AbYAHHsS (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:48:18 -0500 Received: from smtp-102-tuesday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.102]:57607 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbYAHHsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:48:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:48:13 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , bunk@kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com, Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much Message-ID: <20080108084813.7e08f59b@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <478200A4.4090707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <478200A4.4090707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.5 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:20 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > The defconfig make fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with following error > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > GEN .version > CHK include/linux/compile.h > UPD include/linux/compile.h > CC init/version.o > LD init/built-in.o > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8d76): In function `dmi_id_init': > : undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much' > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > > # gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-59) > > This was reported by Adrian Bunk http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/1/39 And by myself long before that... http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/1/308 Since then I have had a private report that upgrading libtool would solve the issue, but I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical, as I don't quite get how libtool would be involved in the kernel building process at all. -- Jean Delvare