On 12/07/16 15:56, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Randy, > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:42:32 -0800 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I started seeing this yesterday (2016-1206). >> This is on x86_64. >> >> Anybody know about it? >> >> kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 out of range in relative mode > > I got a similar failure starting a few days ago on my powerpc > allyesconfig build. I was assuming that it was PowerPC specific, but > noone has found a cause yet. > It may just be an invalid randconfig. I modified scripts/kallsyms.c and I see this message: kallsyms failure: relative symbol value 0xffffffff81000000 [symbol: Tstartup_64] out of range in relative mode and it makes sense that startup_64 would (or could) be at 0xffffffff81000000... especially since CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000 and (from Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt) ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 Ard, what do you think about this? thanks, -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
