Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:37:36 +0200 | From | Alexander van Heukelum <> | Subject | [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev |
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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@fastmail.fm>
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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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