Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:47:56 -0400 | From | Neil Horman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: update vmlinux.lds.S to place .data section on a page boundary |
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:13:46PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> writes: > > > Sorry, Replying to myself. I forgot to mention in my last note why specifically > > I was calling for this change, and why it was necessecary. In addition to being > > the standard in the script for executable sections, kexec also appears to rely > > on PT_LOAD sections being on page boundaries. With vmlinux.ld.s as it is, that > > isn't the case, and so we can't load any kernels with kexec at the moment. I've > > seen this on the most recent fedora kernels (which have the latest version of > > this linker script), and this patch corrects that. > > > > Please look at the file in its entirety, and if you still feel that modifying > > the script so all the ALIGN(4096) directives to be ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) instead is > > the direction to go, I'll implement the change and test it out. > > Is there a reason you don't want to kexec the bzImage? > Not so much that I don't want to, but I don't think you should have to. There isn't any reason that we shouldn't be able to boot uncompressed kernels, is there? Regards Neil
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