linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86

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Message-ID: <m1d59ho0v8.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:11:39 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...source.com>,
	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86_64

Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes:

>> The xen-unstable tree has had the .bss movement patch in for a couple of
>> weeks now with no reported bugs. We are frozen for the release 3.0.3 so
>> at least in theory people should be testing it pretty hard ;-)
>
> Ok maybe we should retry it. The BSS movement patch makes sense by
> itself after all and in theory really shouldn't break anything.
> I'll reenable it.

I think some part of the relocatable kernel or kexec on panic work
had problems with the bss in the middle as well.

Eric
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