On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:04:52PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:

Michal Piotrowski wrote:

quoted

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/43 
Last known good : alpha: 2.6.22-git8 xtensa: 2.6.22-git6
Submitter       : Jan Dittmer [off-list ref]
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : xtensa: Christian Zankel [off-list ref]
Status          : unknown

Status: Unfixed

alpha:  http://l4x.org/k/?d=33700
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xaaa8): In function `pdev_save_srm_config':
include/linux/slub_def.h:154: undefined reference to `__kmalloc_size_too_large'
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xaaac):include/linux/slub_def.h:154: undefined reference to `__kmalloc_size_too_large'
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xd0a8): In function `module_frob_arch_sections':
include/linux/slub_def.h:154: undefined reference to `__kmalloc_size_too_large'
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xd0ac):include/linux/slub_def.h:154: undefined reference to `__kmalloc_size_too_large'
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x19388): In function `srmcons_get_private_struct':
include/linux/slub_def.h:154: undefined reference to `__kmalloc_size_too_large'
arch/alpha/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1938c):include/linux/slub_def.h:154: more undefined references to `__kmalloc_size_too_large' follow
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make: *** [_all] Error 2
...

Christoph, is your fix in -mm suitable for 2.6.23, or how else should 
this regression be fixed for 2.6.23?

Jan

cu
Adrian

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