Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Thu, 29 May 2014 12:46:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C |
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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:43 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 05/29/2014 12:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Paul Gortmaker >> <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:25 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski >>> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote: >>>> Commit-ID: 6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829 >>>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829 >>>> Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> >>>> AuthorDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:19:34 -0700 >>>> Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> >>>> CommitDate: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:18:51 -0700 >>>> >>>> x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C >>> >>> Just a heads up in case it hasn't been mentioned already; >>> the x86 builds in linux-next which IIRC are done as cross >>> compile on a powerpc box are failing as follows: >>> >>> VDSO2C arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c >>> /bin/sh: line 1: 15995 Segmentation fault arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c >>> arch/x86/vdso/vdso64.so.dbg arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c >>> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso-image-64.c] Error 139 >>> >>> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/11265454/ >>> >> >> Egads. This wouldn't be a big-endian host by any chance? >> > > He said PowerPC; most but not all PowerPC systems are bigendian. Seems > like a fair assumption to make. >
I suppose I shouldn't have assumed that code in arch/x86 would always run on little-endian machines. I'll fix it.
--Andy
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