From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: "\"Hán Shěn (沈涵)\"" <shenhan@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "." in vmlinux.lds.S
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:40:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53920B05.9010602@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACkGtrincr-oEu5Aq2EpYmbJDVSzuzwLguOaUvRY4uBqz=5-6A@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/06/2014 10:08 AM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) wrote:
> A gentle ping?
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) <shenhan@google.com> wrote:
>> Hi we are trying to boot up a x86_64 chrome book using binutils 2.24 and
>> kernel 3.8, but failed.
>>
>> After some triage work, we found that a 2-year-old binutil CL changed the
>> interpretation of "." in linker script （short story: absolute -> relative,
>> long story: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html).
>>
>> After some further work, we are able to boot the kernel with a kernel patch
>> pasted at EOM. I am curious, why the upstream kernel is never hit by this
>> behavior? We enabled "CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA", so we were hit, is this some
>> macro not usually turned on?
What does a section-relative symbol do?
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-06-06 17:08 ` "." in vmlinux.lds.S Hán Shěn (沈涵)
2014-06-06 18:40 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-06-06 18:53 ` Hán Shěn (沈涵)
2014-06-06 19:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 20:45 ` Hán Shěn (沈涵)
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