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Date:	Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:22:14 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@...lshack.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * 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.
>

still have merging problem... in tip/master we have

  __x86_cpu_dev_start = .;
  .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
        *(.x86_cpu_dev.init)
  }
  __x86_cpu_dev_end = .;
  SECURITY_INIT

  DYN_ARRAY_INIT(8)

  SECURITY_INIT

there is two copy of SECURITY_INIT

YH
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