-next build failure with gcc 5.2.1

Sachin Sant sachinp at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Dec 8 17:27:25 AEDT 2016


> On 08-Dec-2016, at 7:39 AM, Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/07/2016 07:26 PM, Sachin Sant wrote:
>> next tree fails to build on a ppc64le box with following message
>> 
>>  LD      init/built-in.o
>>  LD      vmlinux.o
>>  MODPOST vmlinux.o
>> WARNING: modpost: Found 3 section mismatch(es).
>> To see full details build your kernel with:
>> 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
>>  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.o
>> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xc000000000000000 out of range in relative mode
>> Makefile:969: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
>> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>> 
>> GCC version is : gcc version 5.2.1 20151010 (Ubuntu 5.2.1-22ubuntu2)
>> 
>> Have attached kernel config file.
>> 
> 
> Thanks, would you be in a position to bisect?

Yes. It seems Stephen has already found the commit causing this. 

Thanks
-Sachin



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