Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964854AbXBOCXm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:23:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964863AbXBOCXm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:23:42 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:37447 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964858AbXBOCXl (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:23:41 -0500 Message-ID: <45D3C42C.1020005@goop.org> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:23:40 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Chris Wright , Zachary Amsden , Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [patch 16/21] Xen-paravirt: Add code into head.S to handle being booted by Xen References: <20070213221729.772002682@goop.org> <20070213221830.707197267@goop.org> <20070213235424.GA1908@muc.de> <45D35ABE.1050504@goop.org> <45D3740A.4080600@goop.org> <45D3A5A4.7080804@goop.org> <45D3BCC6.9020807@goop.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 22 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I'm pretty certain we explicitly drop the weird GNU note that > is automatically generated by gcc and specifies something informational. > But that's something else again, since it appears as a PT_GNU_STACK phdr. > I don't think anything we are doing is wrong but ld gets confused easily > in the corner cases. I'm modestly surprised we didn't have to mark our > .note.xxx scions as ".section .note.xxx @note" or whatever the proper > gas syntax is. I did try that, and it didn't make a difference. The manual says that the output section type follows the input section type, so I agree its a bit surprising we ever get a SHT_NOTE out of it without the @note stuff. J - 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/