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| author | Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | 2005-05-01 08:58:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 08:58:53 -0700 |
| commit | 92eac95287d75f220a8bbef6646f51a6497c4b4c (patch) | |
| tree | 487b3501d9f212cd3f763ee9d8c457b0cda28d56 | |
| parent | 31df7b7fc6182b6c4e5c3b77084d0c026b3ac613 (diff) | |
[PATCH] uml: fix oops related to exception table
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Prevent the kernel from oopsing during the extable sorting, as it can do
now, because the extable is in the readonly section of the binary.
Jeff says: The exception table turned RO in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 for some reason.
Moving it causes it to land in the writable data section of the binary.
Paolo says: This patch fixes a oops on startup, which can be easily
triggered by compiling with CONFIG_MODE_TT disabled, and STATIC_LINK either
disabled or enabled. The resulting kernel will always Oops on startup,
after printing this simple output:
I've verified, by binary search on the BitKeeper repository (synced up as
of 2.6.12-rc2), starting from the range 2.6.11-2.6.12-rc1, that this bug
shows up on BitKeeper revisions in the range [@1.1994.11.168,+inf), i.e.
starting from this:
[PATCH] lib/sort: Replace insertion sort in exception tables
Since UML does not use the exception table, it's likely that insertion sort
didn't happen to write anything on the table.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-um/common.lds.S | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-um/common.lds.S b/include/asm-um/common.lds.S index a3d6aab0e74..1010153faaf 100644 --- a/include/asm-um/common.lds.S +++ b/include/asm-um/common.lds.S @@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ _sdata = .; PROVIDE (sdata = .); - . = ALIGN(16); /* Exception table */ - __start___ex_table = .; - __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) } - __stop___ex_table = .; - RODATA .unprotected : { *(.unprotected) } @@ -20,6 +15,10 @@ PROVIDE (_unprotected_end = .); . = ALIGN(4096); + __start___ex_table = .; + __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) } + __stop___ex_table = .; + __uml_setup_start = .; .uml.setup.init : { *(.uml.setup.init) } __uml_setup_end = .; |