Re: Compile error on 2.6.10-rc1-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The compile time error that few people have been seeing with 
>  the last couple of -mm releases are due to the changes 
>  introduced to arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to enable kexec 
>  based crashdumps.
> ...
>  --- linux-2.6.10-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~kdump-fix-bss-compile-error	2004-10-28 15:15:43.000000000 +0530
>  +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-hari/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2004-10-28 15:18:04.000000000 +0530
>  @@ -117,8 +117,9 @@ SECTIONS
>     /* freed after init ends here */
>   	
>     __bss_start = .;		/* BSS */
>  +  .bss.page_aligned  : AT(ADDR(.bss.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
>  +	*(.bss.page_aligned) }
>     .bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
>  -	*(.bss.page_aligned)
>   	*(.bss)
>     }
>     . = ALIGN(4);

It's hard to see how that could go wrong.  Did you compare the before- and
after- output from `objdump -h vmlinux'?
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