Re: [PATCH] ARM: add a private asm/unaligned.h

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Russell King,
 
 On lun., oct. 30 2017, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Hi Russell,
>> 
>> So I tested the branch fixes in your git tree.
>> 
>> After doing a "make multi_v7_defconfig; make zImage", I got the message
>> "arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: error: zImage file size is incorrect" you added
>> in the commit "ARM: verify size of zImage".
>> 
>> It is the same with mvebu_v7_defconfig, so I wonder wich with
>> configuration this patch was tested ?
>
> I heard a similar report from Olof when his autobuilder produced 100%
> failure.  I tried one of the same defconfig's that Olof tried here,
> and didn't see the failure.  It passes my build tests here, and it
> also passes kernelci's build tests too.
>
> So, I _think_ it's got something to do with the toolchain versions
> being used, but at the moment I'm just guessing.  I've no real idea,
> because I've no idea what's causing the failure at the moment.
>
> Olof said that he'd send me one of the build trees, but I'm still
> waiting.
>
> What I need is a tarball of the objects from arch/arm/boot/compressed
> to work out what's going on - when grabbing that, it may be a good

I've just attached this tarball to this email. It might be rejected by
the mailing list, but as you are also in the "To" field you should
receive it.

Actually the archive is the full content of arch/arm/boot/compressed
from my build directory and I removed vmlinux and all the piggy files to
have a small archive.

If they are also needed then I can provide an url for it.

Gregory

Attachment: compressed.tgz
Description: application/gtar-compressed

> idea to first disable the assert in the linker script, so that the
> resulting "vmlinux" in that directory remains for analysis.  Or...
> someone else needs to work out what's going on and report back.
>
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