Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpuarea

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jun 20 2008 - 13:48:20 EST


On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> So it seems the problem is that the pre-initialized gdt_page is being lost and
> replaced with zero. Linker script bug?

Is the pre initialized gdt page in the per cpu area? Does not look like
it. The loader setup for the percpu section changes with zero basing.
Maybe that has bad side effects?

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