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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:13:46 -0600 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mj@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, davej@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: update vmlinux.lds.S to place .data section on a page boundary Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> writes: > Sorry, Replying to myself. I forgot to mention in my last note why specifically > I was calling for this change, and why it was necessecary. In addition to being > the standard in the script for executable sections, kexec also appears to rely > on PT_LOAD sections being on page boundaries. With vmlinux.ld.s as it is, that > isn't the case, and so we can't load any kernels with kexec at the moment. I've > seen this on the most recent fedora kernels (which have the latest version of > this linker script), and this patch corrects that. > > Please look at the file in its entirety, and if you still feel that modifying > the script so all the ALIGN(4096) directives to be ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) instead is > the direction to go, I'll implement the change and test it out. Is there a reason you don't want to kexec the bzImage? Eric - 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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