Re: 2.5.68-mm4

Matt Bernstein
2003-05-07T15:45:48Z

At 14:35 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:

>It tries to patch an instruction past the kernel text.
>
>It could be in the discarded .exit.text/.text.exit. With new binutils you should
>get an link error when this happens, but perhaps yours are too old for that.

I'm using the RH 9 standard 2.13.90.0.18-9. My environment is exactly RH9
+ modutils 2.4.22-10 from rawhide, on a single Athlon XP.

>When you comment these entries out from the DISCARD statement in
>arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S does it go away ? Alternatively use Andrew's
>latest 2.5.69-mm*, that has the patch too.

Tried 2.5.69-mm2, it crashed the same way :-/