Question about "Inconsistent kallsyms data"

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jul 29 08:55:01 EDT 2011


On Friday 29 July 2011 10:48:46 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When build with s5pc100_defconfig, happens following.
> 
> ...
> KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
> AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
> LD      vmlinux
> SYSMAP  System.map
> SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
> Inconsistent kallsyms data
> This is a bug - please report about it
> Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> 
> Its HEAD is following (current latest mainline)
> (commit 55f9c40ff632d03c527d6a6ceddcda0a224587a6)
> Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc
> 
> Please kindly let me know how it should be fixed...

[Taking Michal and linux-kbuild on cc]

I've seen this before with some of my ARM randconfig builds and
spent some time debugging into it, without success.

Can you build with KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 and send the diff between
.tmp_kallsyms2.S and .tmp_kallsyms3.S?

	Arnd



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