Re: Kernel build fail with "Circular xxxx <- xxxx dependency dropped"
From: Michal Marek <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-11 08:24:30
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Dne 11.6.2014 08:02, Mike Qiu napsal(a):
Hi all, I recently build linux next kernel in IBM Power7 platform, use default config file copy from /boot/config-3.6.10-4.fc18.ppc64p7 [root@cena01 linux-next]# uname -a Linux cena01.austin.ibm.com 3.15.0-rc1+ #47 SMP Thu Apr 24 20:59:46 CDT 2014 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux [root@cena01 linux-next]# cat /etc/issue Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel \r on an \m (\l) and build error log below: [root@cena01 linux-next]# make -j60 CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h CALL arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl_chk.sh CALL arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CALL arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl Building modules, stage 2. WARNING: 1 bad relocations c000000001455040 R_PPC64_ADDR64 uprobes_fetch_type_table make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped. make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped. make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds dependency dropped. make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds dependency dropped. make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff.lds dependency dropped. make[1]: Circular arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S <- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds dependency dropped. WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x14d0db8) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x400000) INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1500000) ld: cannot open linker script file arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.lds.S] Error 1 make: *** [zImage] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... MODPOST 1853 modules I use git bisect to find out the possible commits to lead this problem: 7e1c04779efd51154baf652e653ceb24ce68939b kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree) 890676c65d699db3ad82e7dddd0cf8fb449031af kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree 9da0763bdd82572be243fcf5161734f11568960f kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree
Thanks for the report, I'll have a look. If I do not come up with a solution soon, I'll revert the series. Michal