From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751942AbXCYQ66 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:58:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751948AbXCYQ65 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:58:57 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:36834 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751942AbXCYQ64 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:58:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:54:32 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Andrew Morton , stable@kernel.org Cc: LKML , uml-devel , JC.LAFOUCRIERE@CEA.FR Subject: [PATCH] UML - Fix static linking Message-ID: <20070325165432.GA6232@c2.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ This is both 2.6.21 and -stable material ] During a static link, ld has started putting a .note section in the .uml.setup.init section. This has the result that the UML setups begin with 32 bytes of garbage and UML crashes immediately on boot. This patch creates a specific .note section for ld to drop this stuff into. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike -- include/asm-um/common.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/include/asm-um/common.lds.S 2007-03-05 13:03:47.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S 2007-03-23 23:03:53.000000000 -0400 @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ PROVIDE (_unprotected_end = .); . = ALIGN(4096); + .note : { *(note.*) } __start___ex_table = .; __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) } __stop___ex_table = .;