401. AMD FX 8150:issues building kernel -- random failures.

Update 4:  I found the receipts for one pair of sticks and took it to MSY in Melbourne -- they were replaced on the spot without any questions asked. Very happy.

Update 3: The errors were all due to 3 bad ram sticks. Using the only good stick everything works fine. That's 24 Gb of bad ram...this won't be cheap if I can't find the receipts...

Update 2:
Running memtest86 I caught lots of errors (51 in 50 minutes) before I killed the test. I'm currently testing each stick one by one. I'm hoping that what is seemingly RAM errors can be caused by inapproriate BIOS settings, because 32 Gb bios is not cheap to replace...

While I'm swapping RAM sticks I'm also testing a separate set of stick on a different box. If they are error free it will be interesting to see if they trigger errors on the troublesome node. I'm still hoping for BIOS as being the culprit...

So far three out of four tested sticks have shown errors -- they all happen during test #6. The fourth stick has passed all tests seven times.

Update 1: dmesg also shows the same message as the OP here sees: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909702

The OP puts it down to a misconfigured bios, so the quest continues.
Searching for 990FX and FX8150 I get a number of hits:

Here's a newegg review for 990FX:

 I purchased This MB to run with the AMD FX 8150. I have built computers from high end to low end and know the ones in the middle last the longest and are the most stable.
[..]
At this point the fun of the build is gone, and I have too many hours dealing with problems. 

And that's not the only negative FX8?50 + 990FX review.

The worst part of it is that I've been thinking about building another, identical node (good value for money) as well as recommending my build to a student whom is about to do calcs.

Mind you, I've only ever had issues when it comes to compiling the kernel -- it's been solid when it comes to running calculations.

Original post:

NOTE: this is NOT a solution. Just observations.

My AMD FX 8150 is a great CPU -- it makes up the heart of the fastest of my computational nodes, and is eminently affordable. It does, however, cause me grief in one respect -- I can't compile the linux kernel.

The system
The box that's causing me trouble has
* AMD FX 8150 cpu
* gigabyte 990FXA-D3 motherboard
* nvidia GeForce 210 video card
* Corsair GS 800 PSU
* 4x8 Gb patriot viper PV316G186C0K RAM
While not top of the range, the components should be of reasonable quality.

In terms of software and OS, it's an up-to-date wheezy install (gcc 4.7), running kernel 3.7.2 (compiled on a different machine).

Compiling the kernel
I'm compiling the kernel as shown here: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/342-compiling-kernel-38-on-debian.html

The errors are shown at the end of the post

The fact that the errors keep changing might also be pointing towards there being a hardware fault with my CPU, rather than with FX 8150 in general.

3.8 built fine twice, and crashed the third time. 3.8.10 crashed twice, then built fine the third time.

It all sounds like I'm having hardware issues...but they only seem to be triggered during kernel builds. During 'normal use (i.e. using 100% cpu for weeks at a time) it is perfectly stable. Compiling e.g. nwchem (another pretty heavy compile) also goes absolutely fine.

Troubleshooting something like this also wouldn't be easy. See the end of the post for a list over various errors that I was getting during compilation of different kernel versions.

Anyway, I hit google...

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BIOS
That Windows has issues with 8150 might seem unrelated, but it appeared that my errors could be solved by a bios update to my 990 fxa-d3 mobo:
 http://scalibq.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/amd-bulldozer-can-it-get-even-worse/

"The actual reported error is quite random, it just depends on where the CPU fails first. So you generally get a different error code with every BSOD."

and

"AMD’s KB article focuses solely on some boards with the 990FX chipset."

Well, I do have a 990FXA-D3 gigabyte motherboard.

My bios is shown by lshw as

*-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: F7
          date: 05/30/2012
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 4032KiB

So the obvious solution was to flash the bios.

Turns out, flashing the BIOS is a headache on Gigabyte motherboards (not buying anything from them again). What happened with simply burning a CD and booting with it in the drive?

Flashing the bios

I downloaded the bios (version F8): http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-990fxa-d3_f8.exe.

I unzipped it with 7z, giving me 990FXAD3.F8 -- I then put that file in the root of a USB stick..

I've tried with a number of USB sticks, including a blank stick formatted with W95 Fat32 and keeping the stick plugged in before rebooting.

In Q-flash, I always ended up with a prompt saying Floppy A <Drive>, and when I hit enter it says '..    <dir>'. 0 Files found. Yet it also said Total size 7.48G, Free Size: 7.44 G, which matched the size of the USB stick.

Finally I managed to get it to work:
*  in fdisk I only created a 1 gb partition on the USB stick, set type (t) to 6 (Fat16), made it bootable, and wrote changes to disk.
* I then ran mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 (my usb stick was /dev/sdb).
*  I then copied the 990FXD3.F8 file to the usb stick root (after mounting it of course) and THAT worked.

Memtest86
Because RAM has traditionally been a major culprit behind hardware errors (especially the random, difficult-to-diagnose type) it's always a good idea to run a memtest. To do that, install memtest86+ (sudo apt-get install memtest86+) and reboot. There should be a new menu item (scroll down) in grub. Memtest takes quite a while, especially if you have a lot of RAM (32 Gb...).

Lo and behold, there are errors:

Tst  Pass  Failing Address              Good        Bad        Err-Bits  Count Chan
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6     0     0007383b4f4  -  1848.2MB   fffffbff     ffffffff   00000400    1
6     0     00039c1f294  -   924.1MB   fffffbff     ffffffff   00000004    2
6     0     00120203034  -  4610.0MB   00000004     00000000   00000004    3
6     0     001ca16c464  -  7329.4MB   00020004     00000000   00020000    4
[..]

I counted 51 errors before killing the test (time to identify the bad stick). Many of these occurred in a more limited address space than those shown above. Sigh...the RAM was the most expensive part of this build...

According to this there's a slight chance that the RAM might be ok, but it's still not a good sign.

I've tested each stick by itself -- so far 3 out of 4 sticks have yielded errors during test 6. I did seven passes on the fourth stick and no errors.

The outcome
However, even with the new bios the kernel compiles still fail -- it takes longer for it to fail, but it fails.

I do see the odd thing in dmesg though:

[ 4260.342268] as[29370]: segfault at 4541b5e ip 0000000000410306 sp 00007fff40ec4420 error 4 in as[400000+51000]

So either FX 8150 is still not properly supported by the BIOS, or I've bought a lemon.

The question remains: why do I only see failure during kernel compiles and no other conditions?

---

After bios flash:

Kernel 3.9-rc8

  CC      drivers/base/dd.o
In file included from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:23:0,
                 from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
                 from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
                 from include/linux/sysfs.h:20,
                 from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
                 from include/linux/device.h:17,
                 from drivers/base/dd.c:20:
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h: In function 'native_read_cr0':
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h:24:2: internal compiler error: in build_int_cst_wide, at tree.c:1238
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [drivers/base/dd.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/base] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

Kernel 3.8.10

  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
ipc/built-in.o:(.debug_info+0x1ed81): undefined reference to `.LASF108'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8.10'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

Kernel 3.7.6

  CC [M]  fs/gfs2/super.o
  CC [M]  fs/gfs2/sys.o
In file included from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h:13:0,
                 from include/linux/smp.h:38,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:30,
                 from fs/gfs2/sys.c:10:
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:394:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [fs/gfs2/sys.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [fs/gfs2] Error 2
make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

Kernel 3.5

CC [M]  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.o
  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.o
  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.o
In file included from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.5/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:139:0,
                 from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.5/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:20,
                 from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.5/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:22,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:54,
                 from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
                 from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
                 from include/linux/time.h:8,
                 from include/linux/timex.h:56,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:57,
                 from include/linux/blkdev.h:4,
                 from drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c:22:
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.5/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h: In function 'store_gdt':
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.5/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:304:2: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[4]: *** [drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/lpfc] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.5'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

Kernel 3.4.42
Second crash:

  CC [M]  fs/coda/psdev.o
  CC [M]  fs/coda/cache.o
In file included from include/linux/mm.h:256:0,
                 from fs/coda/coda_linux.h:17,
                 from fs/coda/cache.c:24:
include/linux/page-flags.h:232:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [fs/coda/cache.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [fs/coda] Error 2
make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.4.42'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

First crash:

  CC      kernel/signal.o
gcc: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program as)
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make[2]: *** [kernel/signal.o] Error 4
make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.4.42'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

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Kernels that won't build and the errors -- before bios flash:
3.9-rc8

CC [M]  fs/nfs/nfs4client.o
  CC [M]  fs/nfs/nfs4sysctl.o
  CC [M]  fs/nfs/nfs4session.o
  CC [M]  fs/nfs/pnfs.o
fs/nfs/pnfs.c: In function 'read_seqcount_retry':
fs/nfs/pnfs.c:1951:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [fs/nfs/pnfs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [fs/nfs] Error 2
make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.9-rc8'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.8.10

  CC [M]  fs/nfs/inode.o
In file included from include/net/scm.h:6:0,
                 from include/linux/netlink.h:8,
                 from /home/me/tmp/linux-3.8.10/include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h:5,
                 from include/linux/netdevice.h:51,
                 from include/linux/icmpv6.h:12,
                 from include/linux/ipv6.h:59,
                 from include/net/ipv6.h:16,
                 from include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h:26,
                 from fs/nfs/inode.c:26:
include/linux/security.h:2581:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,

3.8.6

CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-lg.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-lgff.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-lg2ff.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.o
  CC [M]  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_backlight.o
drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_backlight.c:120:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_backlight.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/hid] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8.6'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.8

CC      mm/dmapool.o
  CC      mm/hugetlb.o
/bin/sh: line 1: 25153 Done(2)                 gcc -E -D__GENKSYMS__ -Wp,-MD,mm/.hugetlb.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/include -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -Iinclude -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /home/me/tmp/linux-3.8/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(hugetlb)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(hugetlb)" mm/hugetlb.c
     25154 Segmentation fault      | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -a x86_64 -r /dev/null > mm/.tmp_hugetlb.ver
make[2]: *** [mm/hugetlb.o] Error 139
make[1]: *** [mm] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.8'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.7.6

The errors differ each time:

Second run:

  CC [M]  fs/ext2/namei.o
  CC [M]  fs/ext2/super.o
fs/ext2/super.c: In function 'ext2_fill_super':
fs/ext2/super.c:762:12: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [fs/ext2/super.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [fs/ext2] Error 2
make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

First run:

  CC      drivers/base/power/main.o
/bin/sh: line 1: 12317 Done                    gcc -E -D__GENKSYMS__ -Wp,-MD,drivers/base/power/.main.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/include -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -Iinclude -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.6/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(main)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(main)" drivers/base/power/main.c
     12318 Segmentation fault      | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -a x86_64 -r /dev/null > drivers/base/power/.tmp_main.ver
make[4]: *** [drivers/base/power/main.o] Error 139
make[3]: *** [drivers/base/power] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/base] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2

3.7.2
The errors differ every time:

Second run:

CC [M]  drivers/hwmon/tmp102.o
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x76d76)[0x2b2bb07f6d76]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7a658)[0x2b2bb07fa658]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x70)[0x2b2bb07fbb90]
scripts/genksyms/genksyms[0x4075fa]
scripts/genksyms/genksyms[0x4037c0]
scripts/genksyms/genksyms[0x402de6]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x2b2bb079eead]
scripts/genksyms/genksyms[0x400f59]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0040e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 36440720                           /home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/scripts/genksyms/genksyms
0060d000-0060e000 rw-p 0000d000 08:05 36440720                           /home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/scripts/genksyms/genksyms
0060e000-00616000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0089b000-00c58000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
2b2bb0330000-2b2bb0350000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11802457                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b2bb0350000-2b2bb0352000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb054f000-2b2bb0550000 r--p 0001f000 08:01 11802457                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b2bb0550000-2b2bb0551000 rw-p 00020000 08:01 11802457                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b2bb0551000-2b2bb0552000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb0558000-2b2bb0561000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b2bb0561000-2b2bb0761000 ---p 00009000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b2bb0761000-2b2bb0762000 rw-p 00009000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b2bb0762000-2b2bb0763000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb077c000-2b2bb077d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb0780000-2b2bb0900000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11802454                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b2bb0900000-2b2bb0b00000 ---p 00180000 08:01 11802454                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b2bb0b00000-2b2bb0b04000 r--p 00180000 08:01 11802454                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b2bb0b04000-2b2bb0b05000 rw-p 00184000 08:01 11802454                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b2bb0b05000-2b2bb0b0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb0b10000-2b2bb0b12000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11802447                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b2bb0b12000-2b2bb0d12000 ---p 00002000 08:01 11802447                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b2bb0d12000-2b2bb0d13000 r--p 00002000 08:01 11802447                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b2bb0d13000-2b2bb0d14000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 11802447                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b2bb0d14000-2b2bb0d16000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb0d30000-2b2bb0d45000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11796731                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b2bb0d45000-2b2bb0f45000 ---p 00015000 08:01 11796731                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b2bb0f45000-2b2bb0f46000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 11796731                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b2bb4000000-2b2bb4021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b2bb4021000-2b2bb8000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7fff5cd00000-7fff5cd23000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
7fff5cdd8000-7fff5cdd9000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
/bin/sh: line 1: 18863 Done(2)                 gcc -E -D__GENKSYMS__ -Wp,-MD,drivers/acpi/.video.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/include -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -Iinclude -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include /home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Os -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -Os -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(video)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(video)" drivers/acpi/video.c
     18864 Aborted                 | scripts/genksyms/genksyms -a x86_64 -r /dev/null > drivers/acpi/.tmp_video.ver
make[3]: *** [drivers/acpi/video.o] Error 134
make[2]: *** [drivers/acpi] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

First run:

  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 2369 modules
ERROR: "ieee80211_get_hdrlen" [drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192u_usb.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "ieee80211_is_empty_essid" [drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192u_usb.ko] undefined!
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.6.3

LD [M]  drivers/input/misc/pcf50633-input.ko
  CC      drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.mod.o
In file included from drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.mod.c:1:0:
include/linux/module.h:299:9: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[2]: *** [drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.mod.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.6.3'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.5.0
The errors keep changing.

Second run:

  CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_map.o
  CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_mm.o
  CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_dma.o
drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_dma.c:741:21: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[5]: *** [drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_dma.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/gpu/drm/via] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/gpu/drm] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/gpu] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.5'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

First run:

  CC      drivers/hid/hid-sony.mod.o
drivers/hid/hid-sony.mod.c:46:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[2]: *** [drivers/hid/hid-sony.mod.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.5'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

3.4.42

CC [M]  fs/quota/quota_tree.o
  CC [M]  fs/reiserfs/bitmap.o
fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c: In function 'scan_bitmap_block.constprop.9':
fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c:236:9: warning: 'next' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  CC [M]  fs/reiserfs/do_balan.o
  CC [M]  fs/reiserfs/namei.o
gcc: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program as)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
make[3]: *** [fs/reiserfs/namei.o] Error 4
make[2]: *** [fs/reiserfs] Error 2
make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/tmp/linux-3.4.42'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

---

Another dmesg error:

319. Collection of errors when compiling kernel 3.7.x on AMD FX 8150

Update 20th Feb 2013:  Kernel 3.8 compiles fine on AMD FX 8150. Just ignore kernel 3.7.

Original post:

This is a collection of errors
(although you can obviously compile the kernel this way -- just not on AMD FX 8150...)

It does not hold any solutions

See here for how to compile kernel 3.7.0 to 3.7.1:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/compiling-kernel-37-on-debian.html
and here for how to patch 3.7.1
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/patching-kernel-371-to-fix.html

See here for how to compile 3.7.2 and 3.7.3:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/321-compiling-kernel-372-on-debian.html

Post continues:
Normally this wouldn't merit its own post, but because I've been annoyed over the inability to compile
kernels on my AMD FX 8150 I decided to collect as much data on the errors as possible.

Basically, kernel 3.7.x fails to build on AMD FX 8150, while kernels 3.6.3 and 3.5 build just fine.
Here's the lspci -n hardware profile for my system, although I'm fairly certain it's due to AMD FX 8150:

00:00.0 0600: 1002:5a14 (rev 02)
00:04.0 0604: 1002:5a18
00:09.0 0604: 1002:5a1c
00:11.0 0106: 1002:4390 (rev 40)
00:12.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:12.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4385 (rev 42)
00:14.1 0101: 1002:439c (rev 40)
00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383 (rev 40)
00:14.3 0601: 1002:439d (rev 40)
00:14.4 0604: 1002:4384 (rev 40)
00:14.5 0c03: 1002:4399
00:15.0 0604: 1002:43a0
00:15.1 0604: 1002:43a1
00:15.2 0604: 1002:43a2
00:15.3 0604: 1002:43a3
00:16.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:16.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1600
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1601
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1602
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1603
00:18.4 0600: 1022:1604
00:18.5 0600: 1022:1605
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0a65 (rev a2)
01:00.1 0403: 10de:0be3 (rev a1)
02:00.0 0c03: 1b6f:7023 (rev 01)
03:06.0 0200: 10ec:8169 (rev 10)
04:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 06)

The lower number of errors for kernel 3.7 below is because I did -j1 (so fewer threads to finish), not because it's any better.

Compilation (-O1 example)

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.7.2.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-3.7.2.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.7.2/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig
make-kpkg clean

find -name Makefile|xargs -I {} sed -i 's/\-O2/\-O1/g' {}
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j9 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

Errors:

---

-O2 on kernel 3.7.2 with AMD FX 8150:

net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c:1224:1: internal compiler error: in dwarf2out_finish, at dwarf2out.c:22603
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [net/mac80211] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
net/netfilter/xt_esp.c:94:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [net/netfilter/xt_esp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2
make[1]: *** [net] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h:1:0: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[6]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar5008_phy.o] Error 1
make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k] Error 2
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/home/me/tmp/linux-3.7.2/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h:78:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[4]: *** [drivers/tty/ipwireless/main.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/tty/ipwireless] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_neo.c: In function 'neo_intr':
drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_neo.c:1244:1: internal compiler error: Aborted
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[5]: *** [drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_neo.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/tty/serial/jsm] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/tty/serial] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/tty] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c:74:31: warning: 'bp_procfs_dir' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c:76:31: warning: 'proc_getdir' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:37643: Error: can't resolve `.LVL231' {*UND* section} - `.Ltext0' {.text section}
{standard input}:37739: Error: can't resolve `.LVL231' {*UND* section} - `.Ltext0' {.text section}
{standard input}:37743: Error: can't resolve `.LVL231' {*UND* section} - `.Ltext0' {.text section}
{standard input}:37783: Error: can't resolve `.LVL231' {*UND* section} - `.Ltext0' {.text section}
make[4]: *** [drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/speakup] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
In file included from include/linux/genhd.h:65:0,
                 from include/linux/blkdev.h:9,
                 from include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:5,
                 from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h:58,
                 from drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c:44:
include/linux/fs.h:1550:49: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[4]: *** [drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

and finally

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x2b377411eead]
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/cc1[0x4d2f51]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00fd3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1312897                            /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/cc1
011d2000-011dd000 rw-p 00bd2000 08:01 1312897                            /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/cc1
011dd000-0133c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
01df7000-020b7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
2b3772f20000-2b3772f40000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11800025                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b3772f40000-2b3772f42000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b377313f000-2b3773140000 r--p 0001f000 08:01 11800025                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b3773140000-2b3773141000 rw-p 00020000 08:01 11800025                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
2b3773141000-2b3773142000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3773148000-2b3773151000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b3773151000-2b3773351000 ---p 00009000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b3773351000-2b3773352000 rw-p 00009000 08:01 2233201                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
2b377336b000-2b377336c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3773370000-2b3773384000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1321607                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpc.so.2.0.0
2b3773384000-2b3773584000 ---p 00014000 08:01 1321607                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpc.so.2.0.0
2b3773584000-2b3773585000 rw-p 00014000 08:01 1321607                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpc.so.2.0.0
2b3773588000-2b37735e3000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1321605                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4.1.0
2b37735e3000-2b37737e3000 ---p 0005b000 08:01 1321605                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4.1.0
2b37737e3000-2b37737e5000 rw-p 0005b000 08:01 1321605                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpfr.so.4.1.0
2b37737e8000-2b377384f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1321603                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10.0.5
2b377384f000-2b3773a4f000 ---p 00067000 08:01 1321603                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10.0.5
2b3773a4f000-2b3773a57000 rw-p 00067000 08:01 1321603                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10.0.5
2b3773a57000-2b3773a58000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3773a58000-2b3773a5a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11800014                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b3773a5a000-2b3773c5a000 ---p 00002000 08:01 11800014                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b3773c5a000-2b3773c5b000 r--p 00002000 08:01 11800014                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b3773c5b000-2b3773c5c000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 11800014                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so
2b3773c60000-2b3773c76000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11796562                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.7
2b3773c76000-2b3773e75000 ---p 00016000 08:01 11796562                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.7
2b3773e75000-2b3773e76000 r--p 00015000 08:01 11796562                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.7
2b3773e76000-2b3773e77000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 11796562                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.7
2b3773e78000-2b3773ef9000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11800003                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so
2b3773ef9000-2b37740f8000 ---p 00081000 08:01 11800003                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so
2b37740f8000-2b37740f9000 r--p 00080000 08:01 11800003                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so
2b37740f9000-2b37740fa000 rw-p 00081000 08:01 11800003                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so
2b37740fa000-2b37740fb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3774100000-2b3774280000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11796538                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b3774280000-2b3774480000 ---p 00180000 08:01 11796538                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b3774480000-2b3774484000 r--p 00180000 08:01 11796538                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b3774484000-2b3774485000 rw-p 00184000 08:01 11796538                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
2b3774485000-2b377448d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3774490000-2b3774681000 r--p 00000000 08:01 1310939                    /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
2b3774681000-2b377469e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b37746a3000-2b37750d8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3775119000-2b3776444000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3776460000-2b3776475000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 11796737                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b3776475000-2b3776675000 ---p 00015000 08:01 11796737                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b3776675000-2b3776676000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 11796737                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
2b3778000000-2b3778021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2b3778021000-2b377c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7ffffd08f000-7ffffd0b2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
7ffffd200000-7ffffd201000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]

---

-O1; kernel 3.7.2; AMD FX 8150

fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1168:28: warning: 'payload_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
sound/pci/hda/patch_cmedia.c:777:1: internal compiler error: in size_of_die, at dwarf2out.c:7795
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[4]: *** [sound/pci/hda/patch_cmedia.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [sound/pci/hda] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [sound/pci] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sound] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c:35:0:
drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: In function 'cfi_intelext_write_words':
include/linux/mtd/map.h:331:11: warning: 'r.x[0]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
drivers/media/usb/gspca/topro.c:4968:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[5]: *** [drivers/media/usb/gspca/topro.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/media/usb/gspca] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/media/usb] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c: In function 'nmclan_config':
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c:625:3: warning: 'pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq' is deprecated (declared at include/pcmcia/ds.h:201) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
make[2]: *** [drivers/media] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_ee.c:604:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[6]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_ee.o] Error 1
make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[5]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb] Error 2
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

-O0, kernel 3.7.2, AMD FX 8150

exec make kpkg_version=12.036+nmu3 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian INITRD=YES 
exec debian/rules  INITRD=YES  kernel_image kernel_headers 
Setup is 16988 bytes (padded to 17408 bytes).
System is 2884 kB
CRC f8376713
drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasi.c:577:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[5]: *** [drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasi.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: *** [drivers/isdn/hardware] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [drivers/isdn] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c: In function 'scan_bitmap_block.constprop.9':
fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c:236:9: warning: 'next' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

---

Error messages when compiling kernel 3.7 on AMD FX 8150 with -O2 or -O1

exec make kpkg_version=12.036+nmu3 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian INITRD=YES 
exec debian/rules  INITRD=YES  kernel_image kernel_headers 
net/xfrm/xfrm_sysctl.c:75:1: internal compiler error: in pop_scope, at c-decl.c:1244
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[3]: *** [net/xfrm/xfrm_sysctl.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [net/xfrm] Error 2
make[1]: *** [net] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

---

Kernel 3.7 with -O0 on AMD FX 8150

exec make kpkg_version=12.036+nmu3 -f /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian INITRD=YES 
exec debian/rules  INITRD=YES  kernel_image kernel_headers 
In file included from include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h:59:0,
                 from include/acpi/platform/acenv.h:141,
                 from include/acpi/acpi.h:56,
                 from drivers/acpi/acpica/exmisc.c:45:
include/linux/sched.h:1352:9: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See  for instructions.
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[4]: *** [drivers/acpi/acpica/exmisc.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/acpi/acpica] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/acpi] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

229. Compile ATLAS (+ gromacs, nwchem) on AMD FX 8150 on Debian Testing (Wheezy)

Xianyi's openblas doesn't seem to be ready for AMD FX 8150 yet. I've played with ATLAS in the past, but  for some reason didn't see the same performance with NWChem and ATLAS as I saw with NWChem and Openblas, so I never ended up using it.

I'm also having issues using openblas with CPMD and quantum espresso, and ATLAS is a well-established, respectable project, so it's time to give it another shot. As in most cases in these situations, it's probably a matter of PEBKAC.

Building ATLAS
Anyway. On we go...

mkdir /opt/ATLAS
chown ${USER} /opt/ATLAS
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
wget http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.4.1.tgz
 wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/math-atlas/Developer%20%28unstable%29/3.9.72/atlas3.9.72.tar.bz2
tar xvf atlas3.9.72.tar.bz2
cd ATLAS/

Edit ATLAS/Make.top
change the V on line 6 to lowercase i.e. from
- $(ICC) -V 2>&1 >> bin/INSTALL_LOG/ERROR.LOGto
- $(ICC) -v 2>&1 >> bin/INSTALL_LOG/ERROR.LOG
mkdir build/
cd build/

sudo apt-get install cpufreq-utils

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

ondemand

sudo cpufreq-set -g performance

Unfortunately that only takes care of cpu0:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

performance

but

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

ondemand

So...since we have 8 cores (cpu0-cpu7):

sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/cpufreq/scaling_governor
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/cpufreq/scaling_governor

OK, we're ready to compile:
.././configure --prefix=/opt/ATLAS -Fa alg '-fPIC' --with-netlib-lapack-tarfile=$HOME/tmp/lapack-3.4.1.tgz --shared

Some of the info that's important is:

OS configured as Linux (1)
Assembly configured as GAS_x8664 (2)
Vector ISA Extension configured as  AVXFMA4 (4,496)
Architecture configured as  AMDDOZER (34)
Clock rate configured as 3600Mhz

If that checks out you don't need to manually set your architecture. To get a list over options, do
 make xprint_enums ; ./xprint_enums

If all is well,

make
make install

You should now be done.

Linking Gromacs against ATLAS

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/openmpi/lib:/opt/ATLAS/lib
#single precision
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/single/lib -L/opt/ATLAS/lib -lsatlas -ltatlas -lgfortran"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/single/include -I/opt/ATLAS/include"
./configure --disable-mpi --enable-float --with-fft=fftw3 --with-external-blas --with-external-lapack --program-suffix=_spatlas --prefix=/opt/gromacs/gromacs-4.5.5
make -j6 2>make.err 1>make.log
make install

#double precision
make distclean
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/double/lib -L/opt/ATLAS/lib -lsatlas -ltatlas -lgfortran" 
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/double/include -I/opt/ATLAS/include"
./configure --disable-mpi --disable-float --with-fft=fftw3 --with-external-blas --with-external-lapack --program-suffix=_dpatlas --prefix=/opt/gromacs/gromacs-4.5.5
make -j6 2>make2.err 1>make2.log
make install

#single + mpi
make distclean
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/single/lib -L/opt/ATLAS/lib -lsatlas -ltatlas -lgfortran"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/single/include -I/opt/ATLAS/include"
./configure --enable-mpi --enable-float --with-fft=fftw3 --with-external-blas --with-external-lapack --program-suffix=_spmpiatlas --prefix=/opt/gromacs/gromacs-4.5.5
make -j6 2>make3.err 1>make3.log
make install

#double + mpi
make distclean
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/double/lib -L/opt/ATLAS/lib -lsatlas  -ltatlas  -lgfortran" 
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/fftw/fftw-3.3.2/double/include -I/opt/ATLAS/include"
./configure --enable-mpi --disable-float --with-fft=fftw3 --with-external-blas --with-external-lapack --program-suffix=_dpmpiatlas --prefix=/opt/gromacs/gromacs-4.5.5
make -j6 2>make4.err 1>make4.log
make install

Linking NWChem against ATLAS

export LARGE_FILES=TRUE
export TCGRSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export NWCHEM_TOP=`pwd`
export NWCHEM_TARGET=LINUX64
export NWCHEM_MODULES="all"
export BLASOPT="-L/opt/ATLAS/lib -lsatlas -ltatlas"
export USE_MPI=y
export USE_MPIF=y
export USE_MPIF4=y
export MPI_LOC=/usr/lib/openmpi/lib
export MPI_INCLUDE=/usr/lib/openmpi/include
export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/openmpi/lib:/opt/ATLAS/lib"
export LIBMPI="-lmpi -lopen-rte -lopen-pal -ldl -lmpi_f77 -lpthread"
export LDFLAGS="-I/opt/ATLAS/include"
cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src
make clean
make nwchem_config
make FC=gfortran 2> make.err 1>make.log
export FC=gfortran
cd $NWCHEM_TOP/contrib
./getmem.nwchem