linux-kernel - Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

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Message-Id: <4a3cca1be4bf059806a9108953a26709@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:44:05 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

>> Segher had suggested to use .section command to specifically mark
>> .text.head section as AX (allocatable and executable) to solve the
>> problem.

Great to hear it works in real life too.

Here, have a From: line (or how should this patch history be
encoded?) :-)

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff -puN arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix  
>> arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S
>> ---  
>> linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot- 
>> issue-fix	2007-01-02 09:54:56.000000000 +0530
>> +++  
>> linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S	2007-01 
>> -02 09:57:46.000000000 +0530
>> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
>>  #include <asm/page.h>
>>  #include <asm/boot.h>
>>
>> -.section ".text.head"
>> +.section ".text.head","ax",@progbits
>>  	.globl startup_32
>>
>>  startup_32:

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