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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:49:42 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum > <heukelum@...lshack.com> wrote: > > x86_64-kernels after commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev" > > crashed on qemu-system-x86_64 due to a typo in vmlinux_64.lds.S. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm> > > > > --- > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:41:33PM +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote: > >> Moreover, a defconfig won't run :-/ (on qemu-system-x86_64). > >> Bisection pointed to commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev". > >> The kernel crashes early with a general protection fault in a call > >> to strnlen. I have no idea what goes wrong, yet. > > > > It took quite some time, but I found the problem... I'll leave > > the other one to you ;). > > > > Greetings, > > Alexander > > > > arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 2 +- > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S > > index 201e81a..46e0544 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S > > @@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ SECTIONS > > .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) { > > *(.x86_cpu_dev.init) > > } > > - SECURITY_INIT > > __x86_cpu_dev_end = .; > > + SECURITY_INIT > > > > . = ALIGN(8); > > .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) { > > > > that is merging problem, Ingo should fix that already... indeed. I've fixed it in tip/x86/traps by applying Alexander's patch. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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