Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] next-20090115 - s390x - mm/kmemleak.c

From: Catalin Marinas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:55:40 +0000

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:20 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> > 
> > 	next-20090115 allyesconfig build fails on s390x
> > 
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `kmemleak_scan':
> > mm/kmemleak.c:977: undefined reference to `_sdata'
> > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> A lot of architectures don't have _sdata definined in their linker scripts.
> On s390 _sdata would be the same as _etext. But that is not necessarily true
> for all architectures.

Kmemleak has only been tested on ARM and x86. I can add patches for the
other architectures so that the compilation is fine but can't really run
such kernels.

-- 
Catalin