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Richard Weinberger 6915e04f88 um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.

The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up
linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an
ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard
Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.

I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely
it is because previously

__init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext

and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the
rest.  So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that
_sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols.  But reverting the
accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that
now.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Tested by: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2010-10-26 16:52:04 -07:00

drivers

Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl

2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00

include

uml: fix compile error in dma_get_cache_alignment()

2010-08-20 09:34:55 -07:00

kernel

um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.

2010-10-26 16:52:04 -07:00

os-Linux

um: fix global timer issue when using CONFIG_NO_HZ