Re: dmsetup fails on latest kernel

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/19/2012 11:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have bisected the problem...
> >
> > It is introduced by this commit:
> >
> > 303395ac3bf3e2cb488435537d416bc840438fcb is the first bad commit
> > commit 303395ac3bf3e2cb488435537d416bc840438fcb
> > Author: H. Peter Anvin<hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Fri Nov 11 16:07:41 2011 -0800
> >
> >     x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables
>
> Interesting. I just munged the old pre-merge
>
>    arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
>
> and the new
>
>    arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>
> with some trivial shell scripting, and they are definitely identical.
>
> So the tables look like they match 1:1.
>
> The compat tables match too, except the new list contains the entry
> for bdflush (134), but that's a legacy thing that doesn't matter.
>
> I wonder what else could be going on. Wrong number of system calls
> check? Peter, any ideas?

Not off the top of my head.  I will try to reproduce this and see what 
the problem is.  Dmitry, what version of binutils and gcc are you using? 
 It could be that there is a toolchain problem.

	-hpa


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