Re: Random compiler errors

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:48:54 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Not sure why this is happening, but lately when building kernels
> I am getting non-reproducible cases of gcc failure. There are no
> messages in system log. Cosmic rays? Bad memory?

I haven't had these personally, but from reading lkml over the past
N years, these are usually due to memory or disk/storage problems.


>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/xsave.o
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.o
> arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1416: internal compiler error: Bus error
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs> for instructions.
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
> 
> $ make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.o
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/tls.o
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/step.o
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/tboot.o
> --


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