From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@halobates.de>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:18:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494BC95F.1090000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdtgz9h0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> it would be better to find some way to fix up the debug information
> (perhaps this can be done with the right ld parameters?)
>
> Changing defconfig doesn't really fix the problem because there will
> be still lots of kernel configurations around with
> CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
>
Fixing the debug information is definitely necessary. This is merely a
stopgap. There has been a bug report about the relocatable kernel's
symbol information for a while, but there seems to be no forward
progress at fixing those. I might end up taking a look at it.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 17:35 [PATCH] x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change Vegard Nossum
2008-12-18 19:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-19 11:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-19 16:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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