linux-kernel - Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:23:38 +0200
From:	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

On 00:22, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ffffffffff7004d8 -> ffffffffff70050f]
> 
> Does this patch fix it?

Nope, with 0x600 I still get the same error. But it helped to further
increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET to 0xc00. I tried 0x700, 0x800,... and 0xc00
is the smallest value in this series that makes the error go away, i.e.
the patch below works for me.

Thanks
Andre


diff --git a/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h b/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
index 5304204..61667d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
+++ b/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
+#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0xc00

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