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| author | Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> | 2008-07-04 10:00:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-04 10:40:09 -0700 |
| commit | 51597acfd3c09073aeea94a0e6f76a931f8c22d2 (patch) | |
| tree | b3038e108c9b380035ec95dd3305f7496d0c2f04 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1209726ce942047c9fefe7cd427dc36f8e9ded53 (diff) | |
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Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data
The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent
kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware
problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel.
The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol.
This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts
and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the
__end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The
later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data.
On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some
space between that two areas.
[1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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