Re: Linux 5.14

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:20 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I realize you must all still be busy with all the galas and fancy
> balls and all the other 30th anniversary events, but at some point you
> must be getting tired of the constant glitz, the fireworks, and the
> champagne. That ball gown or tailcoat isn't the most comfortable
> thing, either. The celebrations will go on for a few more weeks yet,
> but you all may just need a breather from them.
>
> And when that happens, I have just the thing for you - a new kernel
> release to test and enjoy. Because 5.14 is out there, just waiting for
> you to kick the tires and remind yourself what all the festivities are
> about.
>
> Of course, the poor tireless kernel maintainers won't have time for
> the festivities, because for them, this just means that the merge
> window will start tomorrow. We have another 30 years to look forward
> to, after all. But for the rest of you, take a breather, build a
> kernel, test it out, and then you can go back to the seemingly endless
> party that I'm sure you just crawled out of.

Haven't investigated so far, but all 32-bit builds for x86 on Debian unstable
gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110
fail for me with
FATAL: modpost: section header offset=11258999068426292 in file
'vmlinux.o' is bigger than filesize=509598908

(hex value is 28000000000034)

Replacing
#if KERNEL_ELFCLASS == ELFCLASS32
with
#if 1

in scripts/mod/modpost.h fixes it to me.

As said, I haven't done any work to find the root cause, so JFYI.

P.S. Yes, I did a completely clean build and tried different kernel
configurations including just default i386_defconfig in the release,
the same error. x86_64 builds are good.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko