This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Fix binutils-2.21 symbol related build failures
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-fix-binutils-2.21-symbol-related-build-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 2ae9d293b14d17f35eff624272cfecac7979a2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:39:24 +0100
Subject: x86: Fix binutils-2.21 symbol related build failures
From: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
commit 2ae9d293b14d17f35eff624272cfecac7979a2ee upstream.
[only 1/2 of the upstream commit was needed for stable - gkh]
New binutils version 2.21.0.20110302-1 started checking that the symbol
parameter to the .size directive matches the entry name's
symbol parameter, unearthing two mismatches:
AS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_rm.o
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_rm.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_rm.S:12: Error: .size expression with symbol
`wakeup_code_start' does not evaluate to a constant
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:1421: Error: .size expression with
symbol `apf_page_fault' does not evaluate to a constant
The problem was discovered while using Debian's binutils
(2.21.0.20110302-1) and experimenting with binutils from
upstream.
Thanks Alexander and H.J. for the vital help.
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <[email protected]>
Cc: H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ ENTRY(async_page_fault)
CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
jmp error_code
CFI_ENDPROC
-END(apf_page_fault)
+END(async_page_fault)
#endif
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/x86-fix-binutils-2.21-symbol-related-build-failures.patch
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