Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ?

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 17:51:00 EST


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:45 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 08/20/2009 08:55 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> >> The reason seems to be, that something in the newer gcc compilers changed to generate multiple sections all named ".text" for the PCREL17 relocations.
> >> Older compilers named those sections ".text.1", ".text.2", ".text.3" and so forth.
> >
> > GCC has never generated ".text.1", etc, on parisc linux as far as I know.
>
> Hmm, I don't like to disagree with an gcc-expert like you,but
> I did pasted an objdump in my last mail, which shows that gcc did
> generated .text.1, .text.2 and so on:
>
> Sections:
> Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
> 0 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**0
> CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> ...
> 4 .text.1 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000b0 2**0
> CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

Since this is a relinked object, might it be possible that ld rather
than gcc is the culprit?

James


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