linux-kernel - Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML

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Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:05:53 +0200
From:	Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@...oo.it>
To:	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section

On giovedì 16 agosto 2007, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:04:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:26:39PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > The crash is in this section:
> > >
> > >   __uml_setup_start = .;
> > >   .uml.setup.init : { *(.uml.setup.init) }
> > >   __uml_setup_end = .;
> >
> > This looks like a classic bug.
> > You wanted this:
> > .uml.setup.init : {
> > 	__uml_setup_start = .;
> > 	*(.uml.setup.init)
> > 	__uml_setup_end = .;
> > }
>
> Ooh, this sounds promising, thanks.

It's not the first time we hit effects of such bugs, is it? The .note.ABI-tag 
fix, time ago, may be about the same problem. Can you double-check all UML 
linker scripts for more instances of this bug?

Bye
-- 
"Doh!" (cit.), I've made another another mistake!
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

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