Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:37:32 -0400 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.1 | From | Arnaud Lacombe <> |
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Hi,
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, > >>>> >>>> commit 59e97e4d6fbcd5b74a94cb48bcbfc6f8478a5e93 >>>> Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> >>>> Date: Wed Jul 13 09:24:10 2011 -0400 >>>> >>>> x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative >>>> >>>> This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can >>>> apply alternatives to unrelocated code. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> >>>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu >>>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> >>>> >>> >>> I probably missed a hardcoded alternative entry that depends on >>> config. Can you send me your System.map and the output of objdump -s >>> -j .altinstructions vmlinux? >>> >> see attached. >> >>> I'm also having issues building from your .config. Building >>> 59e97e4d6fbcd5b74a94cb48bcbfc6f8478a5e93 asks me about Moorestown MID >>> platform, Ethernet, etc. >>> >> yes, the config is against -rc3. An `oldnoconfig' should do the job >> before the build. >> > > I still can't reproduce this. I'm building the attached .config on > the v3.1-rc3, running make ARCH=i386 oldnoconfig (which spews a lot of > changes), frak... I sent a stale .config, the right one should be attached. In the mean time, I'll try your patch.
sorry, - Arnaud
> then building with ARCH=i386 and test-booting in KVM. No > panic. > > Can you either send me a real .config and exact commit that you're > building or try the attached patch and tell me what it says? > > Thanks, > Andy > [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream] | |