Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752260AbZLXMW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:22:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751472AbZLXMW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:22:56 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:37112 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750854AbZLXMWz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:22:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4B335DE6.9030102@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:26:14 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130 SUSE/3.0.0-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Blechmann CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.32 regression: unable to handle kernel paging request References: <4B269765.1070703@klingt.org> <4B2A2A7D.1050506@klingt.org> <4B2A93F2.3070407@klingt.org> <4B2AFBB1.3040609@kernel.org> <4B2B4838.6080509@klingt.org> <4B2F20E0.30804@kernel.org> <4B2F40C0.5020407@klingt.org> <4B33592B.6000107@kernel.org> <4B335964.6040202@klingt.org> In-Reply-To: <4B335964.6040202@klingt.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1210 Lines: 34 Hello, On 12/24/2009 09:07 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote: >>> as i said before, the configuration is not really uncommon ... the >>> readelf output is attached. >> >> Hmmm.... I think it's more convoluted than I originally thought. I >> was expecting a missing section but in the broken case the linker has >> assigned addresses to sections even though it was a relocatable link. >> That's just strange. >> >> Can you please post the output of "ld --version"? Also, what distro >> are you on? > > i am not at that specific machine, but the distribution is the same as > on my laptop, ubuntu 9.10, x86-64. i don't have any issues, running > 2.6.32.2 on my laptop, though ... > > GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20 Sections aren't supposed to have addresses assigned in relocatable output and it of course breaks things. I'll try newer version of binutils but at this point it looks like a linker bug. Can you please report it to ubuntu too? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/