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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	lguest <lguest@ozlabs.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest bzImage loading with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:23:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185668610.12151.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73wswmqg4o.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:45 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> 
> > Jason Yeh sent his crashing .config: bzImages made with
> > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y put the relocs where the BSS is expected, and we
> > crash with unusual results such as:
> 
> The normal kernel startup should already clear BSS. Why does
> this not work here? Can it be fixed?

Unfortunately, lguest doesn't go through the normal startup path (which
does this in asm).

Thanks,
Rusty.



      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-29  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27  3:35 Rusty Russell
2007-07-27 10:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-29  0:23   ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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