[PATCH][2.6-mm] 4/4 linker error (overlapping sections)

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

I got this on a NUMAQ 32way/32G kernel build with an external patch, i 
had to bump the PAGE_SIZE multiple (which is currently 2) to fix it, but 
how does this patch look instead?

ld: section __ex_table [022cd000 -> 022cd207] overlaps section .entry.text [022cb000 -> 022cdfdf]
ld: section .rodata [022cd220 -> 02314f61] overlaps section .entry.text [022cb000 -> 022cdfdf]

The resultant image is the same (checked with objdump -t before and 
after) and compiles with my patch too.

02562000 g       *ABS*  00000000 __entry_tramp_start
0256373c g       *ABS*  00000000 __entry_tramp_end
02564000 g       *ABS*  00000000 _etext
02564000 l    d  __ex_table     00000000
02564178 g       *ABS*  00000000 __stop___ex_table
02564000 g       *ABS*  00000000 __start___ex_table

Index: linux-2.6.0-test4-mm4/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /build/cvsroot/linux-2.6.0-test4-mm4/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -B -r1.2 vmlinux.lds.S
--- linux-2.6.0-test4-mm4/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	31 Aug 2003 03:29:45 -0000	1.2
+++ linux-2.6.0-test4-mm4/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	31 Aug 2003 06:06:03 -0000
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ SECTIONS
   __start___entry_text = .;
   .entry.text : AT (__entry_tramp_start) { *(.entry.text) }
   __entry_tramp_end = __entry_tramp_start + SIZEOF(.entry.text);
-  . = __entry_tramp_start + 2*PAGE_SIZE_asm;
+  . = __entry_tramp_end;
+  . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE_asm);
 #else
   .entry.text : { *(.entry.text) }
 #endif
-
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