Bug 14115
| Summary: | gcc-2.96-33 builds non-bootable kernel 2.4.0-test5-pre1 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Olivier Baudron <olivier.baudron> |
| Component: | gcc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-07-24 23:21:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Am just testing new gcc fixes if the kernel works with them gcc in the current distribution builds a working kernel (last tried 2.4.0-test6-pre9) |
gcc-2.96-33 compiles kernel 2.4.0-test5-pre1 but when booting it hangs after 'Starting kswapd v1.6'. I tried with egcs-1.1.2 and it boots just fine, so the problem is probably a gcc issue, not a kernel one. I inserted various 'printk("coucou\n")' in the code and it appears that the problem occurs in linux/init/main.c lines 615--624: static void __init do_initcalls(void) { initcall_t *call; call = &__initcall_start; do { (*call)(); call++; } while (call < &__initcall_end); } The first iteration, which threads kswapd, is correctly executed. In the second, the computer hangs after (*call)(). Normally, if compiled with egcs, the kernel outputs 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.' so it is possible that the build problem is somewhere in the PS/2 driver. Also note that kernel 2.4.0-test2 did not have this problem whereas 2.4.0-test4-pre6 did. I could not try with test3 because gcc was unable to compile it.