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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix compilation of 64-bit kernel with 32-bit compiler
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 08:39:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180308073940.GT25181@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1803080107001.7847@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 01:11:26AM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The patch b5bc2231b8ad4387c9641f235ca0ad8cd300b6df ("objtool: Add 
> retpoline validation") broke compiling 64-bit kernel with 32-bit compiler.
> 
> This patch fixes the following error and a large number of "can't find
> rela for retpoline_safe" errors that occur when using x32 or i386 gcc.
> 
> You shouldn't use the type 'unsigned long' in objtool at all - because its
> size depends on the compiler and not on the kernel you are compiling.

Your patch is wrong because the data field is actually a long. A correct
patch is already in merged in tip.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-08  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-08  6:11 Mikulas Patocka
2018-03-08  7:39 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-03-08  9:09   ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-03-08  9:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-08 15:17       ` Josh Poimboeuf

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