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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> My ia64 allmodconfig build has taken
>
> akpm 15700 89.6 0.0 8256 700 pts/4 RN+ 03:09 10:41 bc -q kernel/timeconst.bc
>
> 11 minutes so far. fc6/x86_64.
>

I just tried this on my system, using your cross-compiler chain. I got
a different error:

/opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
section .data.patch [a000000000000500 -> a000000000000507] overlaps
section .dynamic [a0000000000003c8 -> a000000000000507]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [arch/ia64/kernel/gate.so] Error 1

... but the timeconst stuff worked fine. I tried it both from the
command line and using your xb script.

This is on a fc7/x86-64 box. I also ran through all the values from 48
to 1024 on both an fc5 and an fc7 box (no fc6 box readily available,
although bc has been at 1.06 since 2000...)

In short, this is highly weird. Could you possibly do me a favour and
just run, at the command line:

echo 250 | bc -q kernel/timeconst.bc

... and see if it reproduces the lockup (I'm assuming HZ == 250 in your
config, since that's what I get when I do "make allmodconfig" on IA64.)

(No need to wait 11 minutes. It should run in a small fraction of a
second.)

-hpa


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