From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753527AbYJAGuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:50:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752532AbYJAGt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:49:56 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49243 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752448AbYJAGtz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:49:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:49:42 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Alexander van Heukelum , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev Message-ID: <20081001064942.GA651@elte.hu> References: <1222792897-5691-1-git-send-email-heukelum@fastmail.fm> <20080930193736.GA4453@mailshack.com> <86802c440809301337i1bbf6e9ckb8de8a1ef08955d3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86802c440809301337i1bbf6e9ckb8de8a1ef08955d3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum > wrote: > > 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 > > > > --- > > > > 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) { > > > > that is merging problem, Ingo should fix that already... indeed. I've fixed it in tip/x86/traps by applying Alexander's patch. Ingo