Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:42:32 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add back _end symbol that is missing from Symbol.map |
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* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:48:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:07:12AM +0000, tip-bot for Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > > Commit-ID: d1e4d37b79e944f6351ae38eb1ca7c9f7b506e76 > > > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d1e4d37b79e944f6351ae38eb1ca7c9f7b506e76 > > > > Author: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> > > > > AuthorDate: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:19:32 -0800 > > > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > > > CommitDate: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:05:03 +0100 > > > > > > > > x86: Add back _end symbol that is missing from Symbol.map > > > > > > > > With 2.6.31 'crash' on x86_64 falls flat on its face as the > > > > '_end' symbol is missing from the System.map file. > > > > > > > > The culprit is commit 091e52c3551d3031343df24b573b770b4c6c72b6, > > > > which moved the '_end' symbol into it's own section. Apparently > > > > this causes kallsyms to not reference it properly. > > > > > > > > So do not include _end in it's own section. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> > > > > Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .31.x > > > > LKML-Reference: <200911041519.nA4FJWEW030164@imap1.linux-foundation.org> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > > > > > I'm afraid this will break a RELOCTABLE i386 kernel. > > > > > > We fixed this up some time ago where we had to > > > move the symbol definition inside a section > > > to prevent the symbol being absolute. > > > > ah, indeed. So ... the question is then, why did _end disappear from > > System.map? > > I think ld discards zero size sections. No need to keep them around if > they are empty. > > Following patch should fix it up in a better way.
thanks Sam, that was fast!
> I reused most of Hannes changelog.
Hannes, if it works for you then please resend the patch with your signoff so we can send it upstream-wards.
Thanks,
Ingo
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