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) {
next prev 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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