From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753706Ab2GAQoY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:44:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43358 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498Ab2GAQoX (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:44:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4FF07E66.2020706@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:44:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: hacklu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, boot: Optimize the elf header handling. References: <4FB492F7.8050401@gmail.com> <87ipf9gtsb.fsf@xmission.com> <4FCAD590.8000506@zytor.com> <87obp0bxdv.fsf@xmission.com> <4FCB602B.70907@zytor.com> <87fwacb0jq.fsf_-_@xmission.com> <877gvob0g4.fsf_-_@xmission.com> <4FF06701.6010004@zytor.com> <4FF06DF4.4000006@zytor.com> <87wr2nsbvi.fsf@xmission.com> <4FF0769F.8090105@zytor.com> <87sjdbsb0v.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87sjdbsb0v.fsf@xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/01/2012 09:26 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Fair enough. It looks like somehow SMP got unset in my test > configuration and enabling SMP certainly kills the boot for > me. So it looks like I can reproduce this. > > So I am guess I just missed something. Ugh. > > Digging deeper... > Could there be a VMA/LMA confusion? The VMA for the .data..percpu section is zero. -hpa