linux-kernel - Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802012250251.18790@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:51:14 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?


On Feb 1 2008 12:10, Andi Kleen wrote:
>On Friday 01 February 2008 11:47:18 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch
>> warnings were getting out of control.
>
>My question is: where are crashes? If the sections were
>really in such bad shape and since we poison (and sometimes
>even unmap) init after boot we should in theory see a lot 
>of oops reports from this if there were really accesses to
>them after boot.
>
>Where are they?

Perhaps still in RAM? Explicitly zero the area after unmapping,
maybe something happens.
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