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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:37:28 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix: x86: remove cpu_vendor_dev
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Alexander van Heukelum
<heukelum@mailshack.com> 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@fastmail.fm>
>
> ---
>
> 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