Re: [BUG] as of trunk build Linux kernel trunk entry_32.S got error

From: Alan Modra
Date: Thu Mar 03 2011 - 09:31:04 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:48:01AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Hui Zhu <teawater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > as -version
> > GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21.51.20110303
> >  AS      arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.o
> > /home/teawater/big/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:
> > Assembler messages:
> > /home/teawater/big/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:1422:
> > Error: .size expression does not evaluate to a constant
> >
> > When I change back to the as of system, everything is OK.
> >
> > Because I always use the as of trunk, so I think a recent PATCH caused
> > the problem.
> >
>
> You need
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hjl/linux-2.6.37.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c5ce9c1b8eb927c131a31d4466e24e00647e9cb

That doesn't fix the similar entry_32.S problem. Here you go.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
index c8b4efa..9ca3b0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ ENTRY(async_page_fault)
CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
jmp error_code
CFI_ENDPROC
-END(apf_page_fault)
+END(async_page_fault)
#endif

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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