Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/199] 5.10.199-rc2 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/24/23 01:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.199 release.
> There are 199 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
>
> Responses should be made by Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:32:45 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

Build reference: v5.10.198-200-ge31b6513c43d
Compiler version: x86_64-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.4.0
Assembler version: GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.40

Building x86_64:defconfig ... passed
Building x86_64:allyesconfig ... failed
--------------
Error log:
Unsupported relocation type: unknown type rel type name (-1940038754)
make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:122: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs'
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
x86_64-linux-objcopy: vmlinux: unsupported relocation type 0x9e
x86_64-linux-objcopy: vmlinux[.text]: relocation count is negative: bad value
make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:114: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/Makefile:115: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:274: bzImage] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:192: __sub-make] Error 2

No idea what is causing it, but it is persistent. Something odd between
compiler/binutils/objcopy.

Guess it doesn't matter since the release is out already.

Guenter