PROBLEM: Regression in 2.6.27.10 causes compile to fail

From: jason . faulkner
Date: Wed May 06 2009 - 11:16:44 EST


I've already documented this bug in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13255

My .config (attached) compiles on 2.6.27, but doesn't compile on
2.6.27.22.

After some troubleshooting, I've discovered the regression was introduced in
the 2.6.27.10 release (2.6.27.[10-22] will not compile; 2.6.27.[1-9] will)

This is a RHEL 5.3 server with all packages up to date; running gcc-4.1.2-42.el5.

Output from the make follows:

# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
GEN include/asm/asm-offsets.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
HOSTCC scripts/bin2c
CC init/main.o
CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
CC init/do_mounts.o
CC init/do_mounts_initrd.o
LD init/mounts.o
CC init/initramfs.o
CC init/calibrate.o
LD init/built-in.o
HOSTCC usr/gen_init_cpio
GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
AS usr/initramfs_data.o
LD usr/built-in.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/process_64.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.o
AS arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/time_64.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/ioport.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/ldt.o
CC arch/x86/kernel/setup.o
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c: In function Ãsetup_archÃ:
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:714: error: implicit declaration of function
Ãvmi_activateÃ
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/setup.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2

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Jason Faulkner
Linux Systems Engineer
Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace

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