Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:34:12 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, boot: Optimize the elf header handling. |
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On 07/01/2012 08:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Sadly, this patch breaks the boot with of of my standard configurations > (attached)... it goes into an infinite reboot loop. This was the first > config I tested, so it might very well break more. >
Some more investigation: the boot crashes because the .data..percpu segment is all zero -- since this includes the GDT, we die quickly and dramatically only a handful of instructions into head_64.S.
I'm dropping this patchset for now.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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