linux-kernel - [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor

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Message-ID: <20080930193736.GA4453@mailshack.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:37:36 +0200
From:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev

x86_64-kernels after commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev"
crashed on qemu-system-x86_64 due to a typo in vmlinux_64.lds.S.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>

---

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:41:33PM +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> Moreover, a defconfig won't run :-/ (on qemu-system-x86_64).
> Bisection pointed to commit 10a434fcb "x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev".
> The kernel crashes early with a general protection fault in a call
> to strnlen. I have no idea what goes wrong, yet.

It took quite some time, but I found the problem... I'll leave
the other one to you ;).

Greetings,
	Alexander

 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
index 201e81a..46e0544 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ SECTIONS
   .x86_cpu_dev.init : AT(ADDR(.x86_cpu_dev.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	*(.x86_cpu_dev.init)
   }
-  SECURITY_INIT
   __x86_cpu_dev_end = .;
+  SECURITY_INIT
 
   . = ALIGN(8);
   .parainstructions : AT(ADDR(.parainstructions) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
--
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