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Subject[RFC PATCH v1.9 04/14] x86: move _stext marker before head code
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When core_kernel_text() is used to determine whether an address on a
task's stack trace is a kernel text address, it incorrectly returns
false for early text addresses for the head code between the _text and
_stext markers.

Head code is text code too, so mark it as such. This seems to match the
intent of other users of the _stext symbol, and it also seems consistent
with what other architectures are already doing.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index d239639..66e6acb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ SECTIONS
/* Text and read-only data */
.text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
_text = .;
+ _stext = .;
/* bootstrapping code */
HEAD_TEXT
. = ALIGN(8);
- _stext = .;
TEXT_TEXT
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
--
2.4.3
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