Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:35:15 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Yuusei KUWANA <kuwana@nyanyan.to>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use
 common defines
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:36:24 +0100 Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:

> - Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD.
>   The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previously
>   not done if BLK_DEV_INITRD was undefined.
>   This caused a kernel oops when init memory pages were freed after startup,
>   data placed in the same page as the last init memory would also be freed
>   and reused, with disastrous results.

So this is a 2.6.24 thing?

> - Use macros for initcalls and .text sections.
> 
> - Replace hardcoded page size constant with PAGE_SIZE define.
> 
> - Change include/asm-cris/page.h to use the _AC macro to instead
>   of testing __ASSEMBLY__.

Even though those are not.
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