Error in head-common.S file while ARM Linux booting

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed May 11 15:58:30 EDT 2011


On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:54:11PM +0530, Madhavi Manchala wrote:
> <stdin>:46:0: warning: "__IGNORE_migrate_pages" redefined
> /home/openwrt-s3c2510/trunk/build_dir/linux-s3c2510/linux-2.6.36/arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h:476:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>   AS      arch/arm/kernel/debug.o
> In file included from include/linux/cache.h:4:0,
>                  from include/linux/time.h:7,
>                  from include/linux/stat.h:60,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:10,
>                  from arch/arm/mach-s3c2510/include/mach/debug-macro.S:16,
>                  from arch/arm/kernel/debug.S:130:
> include/linux/kernel.h:42:0: warning: "ALIGN" redefined
> include/linux/linkage.h:61:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> include/linux/stddef.h: Assembler messages:
> include/linux/stddef.h:15: Error: bad instruction `enum {'
> include/linux/stddef.h:16: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `,'
> include/linux/stddef.h:18: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `}'

Looks to me like you're trying to include header files which contain C
constructs into an assembly file.  There's nothing much more than "don't
do that" to be said about this.

Eg, you certainly shouldn't be including linux/module.h into
debug-macro.S.



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