Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 06:03:41PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:49:45PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > Ok, I dug around and the gold linker is not being used here, only clang
> > > > to build the source and GNU ld to link, and I am still seeing this
> > > > error.
> > > 
> > > Odd combo.
> > 
> > I'm not disagreeing :)
> > 
> > Wait, does clang link things itself and not need ld?
> 
> Nah.
> 
> > > > Hm, clang 8 does not cause this error, but clang 9 does.  Let me go poke
> > > > the people who are providing this version of clang to see if there's
> > > > something they can figure out.
> > > 
> > > Let me try that with my clang variant. Which version of GNU ld are you
> > > using?
> > 
> > I think it is 2.27:
> > $ ./ld --version
> > GNU ld (binutils-2.27-44492f8) 2.27.0.20170315
> > 
> > Which does feel old to me.
> > 
> > I know 2.32 works fine.
> 
> 2.31 works fine as well.
> 
> > Gotta love old tool-chains :(
> 
> Oh yes. /me does archaeology to find a VM with old stuff

I can provide a binary if you can't find anything.

thanks,

greg k-h