Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] next-20090115 - s390x - mm/kmemleak.c

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 06:56:31 EST


On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:20 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > next-20090115 allyesconfig build fails on s390x
> >
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `kmemleak_scan':
> > mm/kmemleak.c:977: undefined reference to `_sdata'
> > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> A lot of architectures don't have _sdata definined in their linker scripts.
> On s390 _sdata would be the same as _etext. But that is not necessarily true
> for all architectures.

Kmemleak has only been tested on ARM and x86. I can add patches for the
other architectures so that the compilation is fine but can't really run
such kernels.

--
Catalin

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