From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752362AbYLSQUP (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:20:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753454AbYLSQTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:19:00 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52029 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751720AbYLSQS7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:18:59 -0500 Message-ID: <494BC95F.1090000@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:18:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Vegard Nossum , Ingo Molnar , Huang Ying , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change References: <20081218173506.GA29781@localhost.localdomain> <87vdtgz9h0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <87vdtgz9h0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> 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 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.