Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:56:30 -0400 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland |
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:24:08AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello Vivek, > commit 8fc5b4d introduces a regression that no longer allows to compile > x86_64 kernel under x86_32 userland. TJ on freenode/#kernel did analyze > it: > > > (mini) [~/work/linux-2.6] make > > scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig > > CHK include/config/kernel.release > > UPD include/config/kernel.release > > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h > > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h > > UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h > > CC arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o > > arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode > > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o] Error 1 > > make: *** [archprepare] Error 2 > > 08:10 < TJ-> Glanzmann: The purgatory code from kexec is specifying ".code64" > 08:11 < TJ-> Glanzmann: so when your local 32-bit linker tries to deal with that ... it errors > 08:14 < TJ-> Glanzmann: there's only one introducing the purgatory stuff > 08:14 < TJ-> 8fc5b4d Fri Aug 8 15:57:32 2014 -0700 Vivek Goyal purgatory: core purgatory functionality
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the report. I think this is also happening because purgatory is right now being compiled with compiler option -mcmodel=large. There was another report where older version of gcc did not support -mcmodel=large.
A patch is sitting in akpm's tree. That patch puts the new code under a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. So as long as you don't enable CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y, you should be fine. This should not impact any of the existing functionality. Just that you will not get the benefit of new system call.
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch
I hope this patch gets merged soon.
In the mean time I am trying to figure out how can I move away from using -mcmodel=large for purgatory.
Thanks Vivek
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