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Bug 1305725

Summary:	FTBFS: Depmod failure during build on ppc64le
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	gansalmon, hannsj_uhl, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab, pbrobinson
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Hardware:	ppc64le
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-02-25 19:41:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Karsten Hopp 2016-02-09 01:31:20 UTC

Description of problem:
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24 fails to build on ppc64le (succeeds on ppc64):

 + depmod -b . -aeF ./System.map 4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le
Depmod failure
+ '[' -s depmod.out ']'
+ echo 'Depmod failure'
+ cat depmod.out
depmod: WARNING: /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/./lib/modules/4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/kernel/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.ko needs unknown symbol .TOC.
depmod: WARNING: /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/./lib/modules/4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.ppc64le/kernel/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.ko needs unknown symbol .TOC.
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ppc-koji build --scratch f24 kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc24.src.rpm
2.
3.

Actual results:
http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3124225

Expected results:


Additional info:
kernel-4.5.0-0.rc2.git3.1.fc24 fails with the same error.

Backing out the patch from https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/17/24  (included in patch-4.5-rc2.xz) fixes this issue

Comment 1 Peter Robinson 2016-02-09 16:06:34 UTC

Commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 was what caused this failure

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/17/24

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2016-02-24 18:36:20 UTC

this issue had been fixed in kernel-4.5.0-0.rc3.git0.2.fc24 up to kernel-4.5.0-0.rc4.git3.1.fc24 and is now back again in kernel-4.5.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc24:

http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3166528

Comment 3 Peter Robinson 2016-02-25 19:41:40 UTC

Fixed with kmod-22-4.fc24 plus kernel built against it