Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum
<heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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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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