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Message-ID: <4B2F40C0.5020407@klingt.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:32:48 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.32 regression: unable to handle kernel paging request

>>>> removing module-common.lds from LDFLAGS_MODULE, my machine boots fine
>>>> and without any error messages:
>>>
>>> Looks like some necessary part of module image ends up in discarded
>>> sections.  Before the commit, the build process kept those sections so
>>> it worked.  The code has been there for some time now and you're the
>>> first one to report it, so I suppose your .config is a bit different
>>> from more usual ones.  Can you please attach it?
>>
>> it is not too different ... it is based on the .config file of the
>> ubuntu kernel with a few tweaks ...
>> one odd thing is, that i once was able to boot 2.6.32-rcX kernels, at
>> one point, i kept getting these bug messages ... i didn't (knowingly)
>> change the configuration, though ...
> 
> Hmmm... weirdly I can't reproduce the problem here with the same
> config.  Can you please attach "readelf -a lp.ko" with and without the
> module-common.lds struck out?

as i said before, the configuration is not really uncommon ... the
readelf output is attached.

hth, tim

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