From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755528AbZHTXYU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755490AbZHTXYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:24:19 -0400 Received: from mx1-old.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38073 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755517AbZHTXYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:24:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: "John David Anglin" X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com (James Bottomley), deller@gmx.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dave.anglin@nrc.ca Subject: Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ? In-Reply-To: John David Anglin's message of Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:01:13 -0400 <20090820230114.36D3E4E7A@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> References: <1250805049.4302.121.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090820230114.36D3E4E7A@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> X-Windows: the art of incompetence. Message-Id: <20090820232357.934474730F@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > At some time, GCC may start a new .text section at the beginning of > each function. We do this on hpux but not linux. This will cause > multiple .text sections to be present in an object and allow finer grained > stub placement. arch/parisc/Makefile: # Without this, "ld -r" results in .text sections that are too big # (> 0x40000) for branches to reach stubs. ifndef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER cflags-y += -ffunction-sections endif