From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492C3687.1070304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0811250207k3e0991bbgeaa41ccb48f4e4ac@mail.gmail.com>
Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> It seems to be caused by this commit:
>
> commit 5cb04df8d3f03e37a19f2502591a84156be71772
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Sun May 4 19:49:04 2008 +0200
>
> x86: defconfig updates
>
> -CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
> -# CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set
> -CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000
> ...
> +CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
> +CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
> +CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x200000
>
> Were all changes intentional?
>
Yes, but it's unacceptable that a relocatable kernel *NOT RELOCATED BY
THE BOOTLOADER* ends up with the debug information incorrect. That is a
bug, plain and simple, and needs to be fixed.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 21:19 v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression? Vegard Nossum
2008-11-25 1:30 ` Huang Ying
2008-11-25 10:07 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-25 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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