From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:03:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061226150302.85606ac4.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd59f61239daf052c6b8038f4d3f57b8@kernel.crashing.org>
Hi Segher,
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:43:31 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Thanks Jean. Your compressed/head.o looks fine.
>
> No it doesn't -- the .text.head section doesn't have
> the ALLOC attribute set. The section then ends up not
> being assigned to an output segment (during the linking
> of vmlinux) and all hell breaks loose. The linker gives
> you a warning about this btw.
I didn't notice any warning, but maybe I just missed it.
> Jean, how old is your binutils?
2.14.90.0.6
> Since 2.15 at least this should be set automatically
> on sections named .text.<whatever> .
>
> It wouldn't hurt to specify it by hand in the source
> code of course -- change
>
> .section ".text.head"
>
> to
>
> .section ".text.head","ax",@progbits
>
> in compressed/head.S .
I don't have access to this test system at the moment, I'll check, test
and report back once I have access again.
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-26 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061220141808.e4b8c0ea.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-20 14:00 ` Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <20061220214340.f6b037b1.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-20 22:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <20061221101240.f7e8f107.khali@linux-fr.org>
[not found] ` <20061221102232.5a10bece.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-21 10:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-21 1:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 12:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-21 2:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 3:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 13:13 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-21 3:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 13:59 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-21 17:45 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-12-21 20:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-22 8:08 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-22 10:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-22 22:22 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-22 22:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-26 12:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-26 14:03 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2006-12-27 4:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-27 4:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-01 21:39 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-02 6:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-01-02 9:29 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-02 13:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
[not found] ` <20061221145401.07bfe408.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-21 3:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 14:22 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-21 4:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-12-21 8:55 ` Jean Delvare
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