Re: Linux 6.1-rc3

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Günter,

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 8:11 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:29:01AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > [ Adding Arnd and Masahiro in case they remember what the secret sauce
> > for finding those cases was ]
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:00 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > There is one spurious build error. It does not happen all the time,
> > > and even on the same SHA it is not easy to reproduce. If I see it,
> > > I may see it on one server reliably but not at all on another with
> > > almost the same hardware configuration.
> > >
> > > Building powerpc:allnoconfig ... failed
> > > --------------
> > > Error log:
> > > Inconsistent kallsyms data
> > > Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
> >
> > The random "Inconsistent kallsyms data" issue is something that we've
> > had for over a decade.
>
> I know. Difference this time around, at least for me, is that the
> table is oscillating and never converges. Another difference is that

Yeah, I remember the number of retries was increased to "help"
with this...

> it looks like the problem was introduced by a change in how the table
> is created, not by a change in the code or the compiler/linker.
> I do have a patch that lets me run as many extra passes as I want,
> but that doesn't help if the table never converges.

Kisskb has been reporting this on-and-off for sun3_defconfig/m68k-gcc11
since Jan 25th:
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/target/192141/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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