Re: [BUILD BUG][3.16-rc3] Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 07/03/2014 01:52 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:09:13 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Testing the latest kernel (3.16-rc3) I hit this build bug:
> > >
> > >    VDSO2C  arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c
> > > Error: too many copied sections (max = 13)
> > > /arch/x86/vdso/Makefile:61: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c' failed
> > > make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1
> > > /scripts/Makefile.build:404: recipe for target 'arch/x86/vdso' failed
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
> > >
> > > I bisected it down to this commit:
> > >
> > > commit 0e3727a8839c988a3c56170bc8da76d55a16acad
> > > Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Wed Jun 18 15:59:49 2014 -0700
> > >
> > >      x86/vdso: Remove some redundant in-memory section headers
> > >
> > > When I revert this commit, it compiles fine.
> > When I revert that I get
> >
> > Error: cannot handle memsz != filesz
> > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/vdso] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > In file included from include/linux/poll.h:11,
> >                   from include/linux/ring_buffer.h:7,
> >                   from include/linux/ftrace_event.h:5,
> >                   from include/trace/syscall.h:6,
> >                   from include/linux/syscalls.h:80,
> >                   from kernel/capability.c:17:
> >
> > Productivity decline...
> When I revert that mentioned commit I get
> Error: too many copied sections (max = 16)
>
> But if I revert bfad381c0d1e19cae8461e105d8d4387dd2a14fe as well
> then everything is back to normal.


This is with binutils-2.20.51.0.2-15 (I assume Konrad is using the same 
environment as I do. But in any case, reverting bfad381c0d makes the 
build work for me at that version).

-borsi

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