Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:37:28 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com> wrote: > 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> > > --- > > 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) { >
that is merging problem, Ingo should fix that already...
YH
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