Re: [PATCH] x86: make 64bit identify_cpu use cpu_dev v2

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> v2: fix early_panic on some conf
>>     reason : struct cpu_vendor_dev size is 16, need to make table to be 16
>>              byte alignment
>>     also print out the cpu supported...
>
> applied to tip/x86/cpu, thanks Yinghai.
>
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
>> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
>> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ SECTIONS
>>       *(.con_initcall.init)
>>    }
>>    __con_initcall_end = .;
>> +  . = ALIGN(16);
>>    __x86cpuvendor_start = .;
>>    .x86cpuvendor.init : AT(ADDR(.x86cpuvendor.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
>>       *(.x86cpuvendor.init)
>
> ah, nice one!
>
> we broke that via v2.6.25-37-g03ae576 "x86: use ELF section to list CPU
> vendor specific code" - should we backport your fix to mainline right
> now? I'm wondering why it only triggered now - did alignment change in
> this section due to your changes and thus this dormant bug became
> triggerable?

don't need,  that section is not used before this patch.
we my add some building check to verify those kind info to avoid same kind bug.

YH
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