On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:58:48PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of > > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to > > me, doesn't touch a2). NB a rebuild doesn't have to be costly if you only > > poke at a single file or a few which aren't e.g. headers included from > > everywhere. > > Applied. Build started. Report to follow in a day or so: I've applied > other patches to my kernel source tree in the meantime, so a full build > is unavoidable at this point... I'll hold off applying any updates > after this to minimize what must be rebuilt while this issue is being > worked. Thank you for your time and trouble!
Build delayed slightly. Ran into "fs/binfmt_em86.o" build failure patched by Daniel Wagner back in February (incompatible-pointer-types warning treated as error by compiler). Is Daniel's patch queued for incorporation into the main kernel source tree? --Bob