mane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/33650 It was tracked down to be caused by the weak prototype declaration in mm.h: __attribute__((weak)) const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma); But there is no need to make the declaration weak - only the definition needs to be marked weak. So drop the weak declaration. And in the process drop the duplicate definition in page.h for powerpc. Note: the arch_vma_name fix for x86_64 needs to be applied first to avoid breaking x86_64 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Nathan Lynch Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 8k1x