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From: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:37:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930193736.GA4453@mailshack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222792897-5691-1-git-send-email-heukelum@fastmail.fm>

x86_64-kernels after commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev"
crashed on qemu-system-x86_64 due to a typo in vmlinux_64.lds.S.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>

---

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:41:33PM +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> Moreover, a defconfig won't run :-/ (on qemu-system-x86_64).
> Bisection pointed to commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev".
> The kernel crashes early with a general protection fault in a call
> to strnlen. I have no idea what goes wrong, yet.

It took quite some time, but I found the problem... I'll leave
the other one to you ;).

Greetings,
	Alexander

 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 201e81a..46e0544 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ SECTIONS
   .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	*(.x86_cpu_dev.init)
   }
-  SECURITY_INIT
   __x86_cpu_dev_end = .;
+  SECURITY_INIT
 
   . = ALIGN(8);
   .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 16:41 [PATCH 0/4] traps: x86: more unification Alexander van Heukelum
2008-09-30 16:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] traps: x86_64: split out math_error and simd_math_error Alexander van Heukelum
2008-09-30 16:41   ` [PATCH 2/4] traps: i386: factor out lazy io-bitmap copy Alexander van Heukelum
2008-09-30 16:41     ` [PATCH 3/4] traps: x86: introduce dotraplinkage Alexander van Heukelum
2008-09-30 16:41       ` [PATCH 4/4] traps: x86: converge do_debug handlers Alexander van Heukelum
2008-09-30 19:37 ` Alexander van Heukelum [this message]
2008-09-30 20:37   ` [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev Yinghai Lu
2008-10-01  6:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  7:22       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-01  7:36         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01 14:53           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-01  7:06 ` [PATCH 0/4] traps: x86: more unification Ingo Molnar

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