Re: [PATCH][ELF] Correct space calculation for symtab when BSD_SYMTAB=yes

[Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>]

On 2/8/07 13:26, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> wrote:

>> What do the virtual addresses of the symtab/strtab sections have to
>> do with their location in the final address space, after loading? And since
>> you pack the sections into the domain address space in
>> elf_xen_dom_load_binary(), should you not simply sum the sizes of the
>> sections, then sstart=virt_kend and send=sstart+size_sum, rather than
>> taking max(end addresses in elf image) minus min(start addresses in elf
>> image).
> 
> You're right. Attached is a patch, which does it that way.

Please try changeset 15679 in the -unstable staging tree. It's less code and
also fixed up to work with the domU domain builder too. Except it's not
actually been tested with a bsd_symtab guest kernel. It shouldn't need more
than a few lines of fixing to get it working though, if that.

 -- Keir