Re: [PATCH] Use .fixup instead of .text.fixup on __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> [oops. sent it to the old kvm-devel list. sending to the right list, now]
>
> vmlinux.lds expects the fixup code to be on a section named .fixup. The
> .text.fixup section is not mentioned on vmlinux.lds, and is included on
> the resulting vmlinux (just after .text) only because of ld heuristics on
> placing orphan sections.
>
> However, placing .text.fixup outside .text breaks the definition of
> _etext, making it exclude the .text.fixup contents. That makes .text.fixup
> be ignored by the kernel initialization code that needs to know about
> section locations, such as the code setting page protection bits.
>
>   

Applied, thanks.


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