From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 05:12:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080202041211.GA27735@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802012250251.18790@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:51:14PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Feb 1 2008 12:10, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Friday 01 February 2008 11:47:18 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch
> >> warnings were getting out of control.
> >
> >My question is: where are crashes? If the sections were
> >really in such bad shape and since we poison (and sometimes
> >even unmap) init after boot we should in theory see a lot
> >of oops reports from this if there were really accesses to
> >them after boot.
> >
> >Where are they?
>
> Perhaps still in RAM? Explicitly zero the area after unmapping,
> maybe something happens.
This is already doing (but not with zero). With DEBUG_RODATA it is
even unmapped.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-02 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 10:47 Are Section mismatches out of control? Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 11:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01 11:21 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 13:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-01 13:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 21:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-01 22:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-02 16:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-02 17:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 17:02 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-01 21:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-01 22:10 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-01 22:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-02 0:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-01 14:48 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-02-01 15:00 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-01 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-01 20:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-01 22:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 11:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 21:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-02 4:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-01 14:53 ` James Bottomley
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