Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Please include const-sections into linux-next | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:49:27 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 16:03 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > > > It's not incredibly trivial: it causes a compile failure on parisc: > > > > mm/percpu.c:1372: error: __setup_str_percpu_alloc_setup causes a section > > type conflict > > make[1]: *** [mm/percpu.o] Error 1 > > > > I have no idea why, though. > > > > Not sure why this would only happen on parisc, but I haven't looked at it > closely. It means something qualified with const is being defined in a > section with other definitions that are not const, or vice versa.
I think it's probably a compiler bug. gcc isn't as adept with section annotations as people think it is. This tends to manifest in the non-x86 toolchains because we tend to be using earlier versions.
James
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