From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3qwpk372MdzDqBr for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 06:45:15 +1000 (AEST) From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Jessica Yu , Jiri Kosina , Miroslav Benes , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Michael Ellerman , Heiko Carstens Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Jiri Slaby , Petr Mladek , Chris J Arges , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 04/18] x86: move _stext marker before head code Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:44:35 -0500 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , When core_kernel_text() is used to determine whether an address on a task's stack trace is a kernel text address, it incorrectly returns false for early text addresses for the head code between the _text and _stext markers. Head code is text code too, so mark it as such. This seems to match the intent of other users of the _stext symbol, and it also seems consistent with what other architectures are already doing. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 4c941f8..79e15ef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ SECTIONS /* Text and read-only data */ .text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { _text = .; + _stext = .; /* bootstrapping code */ HEAD_TEXT . = ALIGN(8); - _stext = .; TEXT_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT -- 2.4.11