From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755151AbYG3UcS (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:32:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752798AbYG3UcA (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:32:00 -0400 Received: from smtpout3.tre.se ([80.251.192.228]:17909 "EHLO smtpout3.tre.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751736AbYG3Ub7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:31:59 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 883 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:31:59 EDT Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:32:34 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" Cc: Roland Dreier , LKML , LKML-scsi Subject: Re: Problems building 2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc1 Message-ID: <20080730203234.GB12148@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080730184833.GA936@roadking.ldev.net> <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A778826B3E811B0@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20080730201754.GA10882@uranus.ravnborg.org> <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A778826B3E811D7@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A778826B3E811D7@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:21:11PM +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > Sam wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:07:28PM +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > > Roland wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm getting the following error when trying to build either > > > > 2.6.26 or > 2.6.27-rc1: > > > > > > > > > > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c: In function 'x86_64_start_kernel': > > > > > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:88: error: size of array > > 'type name' is > > > > negative > > > > > > > > It looks like you're hitting > > > > > > > > BUILD_BUG_ON(!(MODULES_VADDR > __START_KERNEL)); > > > > > > > > No idea why you're hitting that though. What's your .config and > > > > compiler? > > > > > > > I think maybe I've figured out what's breaking my build. If > > use "make -jN" I hit the error. I usually set N to the number > > of processors (real and HT). So if /proc/cpuinfo display info > > about 4 processors I use -j4, etc. If I don't specify the > > number of jobs to run simultaneously the build completes with > > just the usual warnings. > > > > > > Any experts on parallelism out there? > > > > Can you post the output of a make -j4 V=1 run that fials and > > one that succeeds. > > Then we can maybe spot something. > > > > Sam > Sure. Not to be stupid, but do you want the entire output from the builds or just what would go to stderr? Entire output please. Sam