Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

From: Thomas Glanzmann
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 12:21:33 EST


Hello Vivek,

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> [2014-08-20 17:48]:
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile 2014-08-20 11:32:21.723559119 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile 2014-08-20 11:32:23.654570231 -0400
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ targets += purgatory.ro
> # sure how to relocate those. Like kexec-tools, use custom flags.

> KBUILD_CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -c -MD -Os -mcmodel=large
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS)

> $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(PURGATORY_OBJS) FORCE
> $(call if_changed,ld)

> Can you please try attached single line patch and see if it fixes the
> issue for you.

I tested the same and it works.

Tested-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

...
CC arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
AS arch/x86/purgatory/stack.o
AS arch/x86/purgatory/setup-x86_64.o
CC arch/x86/purgatory/sha256.o
AS arch/x86/purgatory/entry64.o
CC arch/x86/purgatory/string.o
LD arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro
BIN2C arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
...

I also made sure that I backed out the other patch _before_ I tried this one.

Cheers,
Thomas
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