Re: kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff810002a0 out of range in relative mode

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 17 March 2016 at 12:01, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17 March 2016 at 08:14, Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2016.03.17 at 08:03 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>> On 16 March 2016 at 22:25, Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Since:
>>> > commit 2213e9a66bb87d8344a1256b4ef568220d9587fb
>>> > Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Date:   Tue Mar 15 14:58:19 2016 -0700
>>> >
>>> >     kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
>>> >
>>> > kernels linked with ld.gold are broken:
>>> >
>>>
>>> Could you elaborate? I tried building x86_64_defconfig with
>>> -fuse-ld=gold added to LDFLAGS, and it builds fine.
>>>
>>> Could you share your config, please? And instructions how to invoke
>>> the gold linker?
>>
>> I'm using gold trunk and ld.gold is my system linker (just a hard link
>> to ld). My config is attached.
>>
>> (For testing I use the following qemu command:
>>  qemu-system-x86_64 -s -enable-kvm -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio -net user -fsdev local,security_model=none,id=root,path=/ -device virtio-9p-pci,id=root,fsdev=root,mount_tag=/dev/root -m 512 -smp 2 -kernel /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -nographic -append "init=/bin/zsh root=/dev/root console=ttyS0 kgdboc=ttyS0 rootflags=rw,trans=virtio rootfstype=9p ip=dhcp earlyprintk=ttyS0" )
>>
>>> >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.o
>>> > kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff810002a0 out of range in relative mode
>>> >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.o
>>> > kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff810002a0 out of range in relative mode
>>> >   LD      vmlinux
>>> >
>>> > They die early during boot:
>>> >
>>>
>>> Note that there is a patch queued in the kbuild tree to at least abort
>>> the build if such failures happens.
>>
>> Yes. That would be much better.
>>
>
> I tried building with your config, and I still cannot reproduce. I
> using my system's GCC + GOLD:
>
> gold -v
> GNU gold (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu 2.25.1) 1.11
>
> Using built-in specs.
> COLLECT_GCC=gcc
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/lto-wrapper
> Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
> 5.2.1-22ubuntu2' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-5/README.Bugs
> --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++
> --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-5 --enable-shared
> --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib
> --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib
> --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
> --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
> --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object
> --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin
> --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk
> --enable-gtk-cairo
> --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64/jre
> --enable-java-home
> --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64
> --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64
> --with-arch-directory=amd64
> --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc
> --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
> --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib
> --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
> --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 5.2.1 20151010 (Ubuntu 5.2.1-22ubuntu2)
>
> Can you reproduce it with a release version of GOLD?

Actually, I managed to reproduce it by updating my system's
/usr/bin/ld symlink to point to ld.gold.

Looking into it now ...