1. 12 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Alexander van Heukelum's avatar
      x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive · 371c394a
      Alexander van Heukelum authored
      The latest binutils (2.21.0.20110302/Ubuntu) breaks the build
      yet another time, under CONFIG_XEN=y due to a .size directive that
      refers to a slightly differently named (hence, to the now very
      strict and unforgiving assembler, non-existent) symbol.
      
      [ mingo:
      
         This unnecessary build breakage caused by new binutils
         version 2.21 gets escallated back several kernel releases spanning
         several years of Linux history, affecting over 130,000 upstream
         kernel commits (!), on CONFIG_XEN=y 64-bit kernels (i.e. essentially
         affecting all major Linux distro kernel configs).
      
         Git annotate tells us that this slight debug symbol code mismatch
         bug has been introduced in 2008 in commit 3d75e1b8:
      
           3d75e1b8        (Jeremy Fitzhardinge    2008-07-08 15:06:49 -0700 1231) ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback)   # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs)
      
         The 'bug' is just a slight assymetry in ENTRY()/END()
         debug-symbols sequences, with lots of assembly code between the
         ENTRY() and the END():
      
           ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback)   # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs)
             ...
           END(do_hypervisor_callback)
      
         Human reviewers almost never catch such small mismatches, and binutils
         never even warned about it either.
      
         This new binutils version thus breaks the Xen build on all upstream kernels
         since v2.6.27, out of the blue.
      
         This makes a straightforward Git bisection of all 64-bit Xen-enabled kernels
         impossible on such binutils, for a bisection window of over hundred
         thousand historic commits. (!)
      
         This is a major fail on the side of binutils and binutils needs to turn
         this show-stopper build failure into a warning ASAP. ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1299877178-26063-1-git-send-email-heukelum@fastmail.fm>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      371c394a
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