[PATCH v7 0/9] ARM: VDSO

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Jun 28 02:55:04 PDT 2014


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:42:19AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > Since removing -lgcc from the link (one of the changes from v6 to v7), I
> > believe the VDSO is not asking more of the toolchain or build
> > environment than the rest of the kernel does.  I have definitely built
> > it without a target libc.  Apart from the host program's use of
> > too-recent ELF constants (now fixed), I would appreciate help
> > identifying any remaining sources of fragility.
> 
> There's still something wrong:
> 
> fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function 'create_elf_tables':
> fs/binfmt_elf.c:231:35: error: 'AT_SYSINFO_EHDR' undeclared (first use in this function)
> fs/binfmt_elf.c:231:35: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> 
> The problem is the fscking generated includes.  This is going to be a
> right pain - Arnd, is there anything which can be done about this?

And yes, I see that you've mentioned this in the cover - but I think we
/really/ need this solved before we can merge this series, otherwise
we're likely to get lots of people asking about it.

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