Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2023 09:33:54 +0100 | Subject | Re: Linux 6.1-rc3 |
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 8:40 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 8:11 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:29:01AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > [ Adding Arnd and Masahiro in case they remember what the secret sauce > > > for finding those cases was ] > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:00 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > There is one spurious build error. It does not happen all the time, > > > > and even on the same SHA it is not easy to reproduce. If I see it, > > > > I may see it on one server reliably but not at all on another with > > > > almost the same hardware configuration. > > > > > > > > Building powerpc:allnoconfig ... failed > > > > -------------- > > > > Error log: > > > > Inconsistent kallsyms data > > > > Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround > > > > > > The random "Inconsistent kallsyms data" issue is something that we've > > > had for over a decade. > > > > I know. Difference this time around, at least for me, is that the > > table is oscillating and never converges. Another difference is that > > Yeah, I remember the number of retries was increased to "help" > with this... > > > it looks like the problem was introduced by a change in how the table > > is created, not by a change in the code or the compiler/linker. > > I do have a patch that lets me run as many extra passes as I want, > > but that doesn't help if the table never converges. > > Kisskb has been reporting this on-and-off for sun3_defconfig/m68k-gcc11 > since Jan 25th: > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/target/192141/
And this is not yet detected by my scripts, hence not reported in my list of build regressions for v6.2-rc6. Fixed.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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