From: Fabio Coatti <cova@ferrara.linux.it>
Organization: FerraraLUG
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - REALLY SOLVED
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:09:08 +0100
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Alle Tuesday 27 January 2004 19:15, Andi Kleen ha scritto:

> Ok, found it. This patch should fix it.  The top level asm in process.c
> assumed that the section was .text, but that is not guaranteed in a
> funit-at-a-time compiler. It ended up in the setup section and messed up
> the argument parsing.  This bug could have hit with any compiler,
> it was just plain luck that it worked with newer gcc 3.3 and 3.4.

Confirmed here. 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 boots just fine with this patch; without patch 
it hangs just as described before.
(-funit-at-a-time enabled, of course).

Many thanks to all.

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