linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] um: CONFIG_STATIC

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:39:31 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] um: CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y broken

This is the bad changeset:

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
index 2ebd397..e7a6cca 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S
@@ -22,11 +22,7 @@ SECTIONS
   _text = .;
   _stext = .;
   __init_begin = .;
-  .init.text : {
- _sinittext = .;
- INIT_TEXT
- _einittext = .;
-  }
+  INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
   . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);

   .text      :

//richard
2009/12/22, Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>:
> The individual chunks of that patch are all independent; could you
> determine which one of the changes causes the problem?
>
> 	-Tim Abbott
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y is broken since 2.6.32.
>> The linux binary segfaults immediately.
>>
>> This patch introduced the regression (bisected):
>> 5d150a97f9391f5bcd7ba0d59d7a11c3de3cea80 is first bad commit
>> commit 5d150a97f9391f5bcd7ba0d59d7a11c3de3cea80
>> Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
>> Date:   Thu Sep 24 10:36:20 2009 -0400
>>
>>     um: Clean up linker script using standard macros.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
>>     Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
>>     Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
>>     Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
>>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
>>
>> :040000 040000 43c1b7afe756beb0dc5073195916d54ac41e7546
>> fe33dda7c1b15c61a6a65195cc6522beb25e7ba2 M      arch
>>
>> Cheers,
>> //richard
>>
>
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