From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753660AbYKYRcS (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752447AbYKYRcD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:32:03 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42601 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752472AbYKYRcC (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:32:02 -0500 Message-ID: <492C3687.1070304@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:51 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vegard Nossum CC: Huang Ying , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression? References: <19f34abd0811241319u1abf5e77xc2359b4e8d17b518@mail.gmail.com> <1227576620.2442.7.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <19f34abd0811250207k3e0991bbgeaa41ccb48f4e4ac@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0811250207k3e0991bbgeaa41ccb48f4e4ac@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vegard Nossum wrote: > > Thanks! > > It seems to be caused by this commit: > > commit 5cb04df8d3f03e37a19f2502591a84156be71772 > Author: Ingo Molnar > 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