From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: HPPA and Squeeze Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:06:23 -0500 Message-ID: <1246842383.4158.22.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <20090706001745.274D94F19@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Carlos O'Donell , deller@gmx.de, kurt@roeckx.be, pkern@debian.org, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca To: John David Anglin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090706001745.274D94F19@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:17 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: > > > The info data is near the end of the mapped segment. =A0The l_info field > > > is initialized by elf_get_dynamic_info from the dynamic data mapped > > > at l->ld. > > > > Why do you think this is wrong? > > I don't know about the specifics. My supposition is that we may not > be copying the entire segment depending on where the map is placed. Who is supposed to copy the segment? The user or the kernel? > > > I seem to recall that the kernel mmap implementation on hppa is somewhat > > > unique. > > > > I don't recall anything, Kyle? > > This came up with respect to the GCC PCH implementation for parisc. See > comments in host-hpux.h. At the moment, we do have a PCH related bug. > See PR 39355. While I know the problem is present in the PCH file, I > haven't been able to figure out how wrong data gets in the file. Do you have a bugzilla reference so we can take a look ... also, is this likely a tool chain problem or a kernel one? If it's a kernel one could someone provide a description of what they think is going wrong? James