Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752451AbaFFSkL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:40:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:63221 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752340AbaFFSkI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:40:08 -0400 From: Andy Lutomirski X-Google-Original-From: Andy Lutomirski Message-ID: <53920B05.9010602@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:40:05 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?IkjDoW4gU2jEm24gKOayiOa2tSki?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "." in vmlinux.lds.S References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/06/2014 10:08 AM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) wrote: > A gentle ping? > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) wrote: >> Hi we are trying to boot up a x86_64 chrome book using binutils 2.24 and >> kernel 3.8, but failed. >> >> After some triage work, we found that a 2-year-old binutil CL changed the >> interpretation of "." in linker script （short story: absolute -> relative, >> long story: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html). >> >> After some further work, we are able to boot the kernel with a kernel patch >> pasted at EOM. I am curious, why the upstream kernel is never hit by this >> behavior? We enabled "CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA", so we were hit, is this some >> macro not usually turned on? What does a section-relative symbol do? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/