Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, boot: Optimize the elf header handling.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/01/2012 08:04 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sadly, this patch breaks the boot with of of my standard configurations
> (attached)... it goes into an infinite reboot loop.  This was the first
> config I tested, so it might very well break more.

Some more investigation: the boot crashes because the .data..percpu 
segment is all zero -- since this includes the GDT, we die quickly and 
dramatically only a handful of instructions into head_64.S.

I'm dropping this patchset for now.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.



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