Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest bzImage loading with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sat Jul 28 2007 - 20:52:58 EST


On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:45 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Jason Yeh sent his crashing .config: bzImages made with
> > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y put the relocs where the BSS is expected, and we
> > crash with unusual results such as:
>
> The normal kernel startup should already clear BSS. Why does
> this not work here? Can it be fixed?

Unfortunately, lguest doesn't go through the normal startup path (which
does this in asm).

Thanks,
Rusty.


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