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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org>
Cc: linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
	PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro•org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail•com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 7 (kallsyms failure)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:29:35 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161208152935.325120da@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90c66e73-f7c9-3d48-04b7-0985cce53382@infradead.org>

Hi all,

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:30:57 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org> wrote:
>
> On 12/07/16 15:56, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:42:32 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org> wrote:  
> >>
> >> I started seeing this yesterday (2016-1206).
> >> This is on x86_64.
> >>
> >> Anybody know about it?
> >>
> >> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 out of range in relative mode  
> > 
> > I got a similar failure starting a few days ago on my powerpc
> > allyesconfig build.  I was assuming that it was PowerPC specific, but
> > noone has found a cause yet.
> >   
> 
> It may just be an invalid randconfig.  I modified scripts/kallsyms.c and
> I see this message:
> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 [symbol: Tstartup_64] out of range in relative mode
> 
> and it makes sense that startup_64 would (or could) be at 0xffffffff81000000...
> especially since CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000 and
> (from Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt)
> ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB)  kernel text mapping, from phys 0
> 
> 
> Ard, what do you think about this?

The similar failure I saw in the powerpc allyesconfig build

kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xc000000000000000 out of range in relative mode

was caused by commit

  8ab2ae655bfe ("default exported asm symbols to zero")

which has been reverted in Linus' tree today.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-07  6:24 linux-next: Tree for Dec 7 Stephen Rothwell
2016-12-07 23:42 ` linux-next: Tree for Dec 7 (kallsyms failure) Randy Dunlap
2016-12-07 23:56   ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-12-08  2:30     ` Randy Dunlap
2016-12-08  4:29       ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2016-12-08  5:07         ` Nicholas Piggin

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