On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum

 wrote:

quoted text
> 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

>

> ---

>

> 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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