Re: v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Nov 25 2008 - 12:32:18 EST


Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> Thanks!
>
> It seems to be caused by this commit:
>
> commit 5cb04df8d3f03e37a19f2502591a84156be71772
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun May 4 19:49:04 2008 +0200
>
> x86: defconfig updates
>
> -CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
> -# CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set
> -CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000
> ...
> +CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
> +CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
> +CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x200000
>
> Were all changes intentional?
>

Yes, but it's unacceptable that a relocatable kernel *NOT RELOCATED BY
THE BOOTLOADER* ends up with the debug information incorrect. That is a
bug, plain and simple, and needs to be fixed.

-hpa
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