The patch titled kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1 From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx> Fix for linker error on UML: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.2.1/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:267: syntax error The error is triggered by the use of SORT(CONSTRUCTORS) in the UML linker script which conflicts with the kernel-call-constructors patch. Here is what the ld info page says about sorting constructors: If you are using the GNU C++ support for initialization priority, which provides some control over the order in which global constructors are run, you must sort the constructors at link time to ensure that they are executed in the correct order. As there's no C++ code inside the kernel it should be safe to remove the SORT construct. Found-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S~kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1 arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S --- a/arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S~kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1 +++ a/arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.data.init_irqstack) DATA_DATA *(.data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.*) - SORT(CONSTRUCTORS) + CONSTRUCTORS } .data1 : { *(.data1) } .tdata : { *(.tdata .tdata.* .gnu.linkonce.td.*) } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch s390-cio-use-memory_read_from_buffer.patch kernel-call-constructors.patch kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-1.patch kernel-call-constructors-uml-fix-2.patch kernel-introduce-gcc_version_lower-macro.patch seq_file-add-function-to-write-binary-data.patch gcov-add-gcov-profiling-infrastructure.patch gcov-create-links-to-gcda-files-in-build-directory.patch gcov-architecture-specific-compile-flag-adjustments.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html