Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760152AbYBAVvX (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:51:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754407AbYBAVvQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:51:16 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:51964 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752399AbYBAVvP (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:51:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:51:14 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andi Kleen cc: Sam Ravnborg , LKML , linux arch , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control? In-Reply-To: <200802011210.52655.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20080201104718.GA11717@uranus.ravnborg.org> <200802011210.52655.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 21 On Feb 1 2008 12:10, Andi Kleen wrote: >On Friday 01 February 2008 11:47:18 Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch >> warnings were getting out of control. > >My question is: where are crashes? If the sections were >really in such bad shape and since we poison (and sometimes >even unmap) init after boot we should in theory see a lot >of oops reports from this if there were really accesses to >them after boot. > >Where are they? Perhaps still in RAM? Explicitly zero the area after unmapping, maybe something happens. -- 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/