Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type.
> The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs
> in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when
> the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when
> executing this code.
>
> This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the
> original section.
>

Oh, and this would not be complete without giving Andrew Pinski complete
credit for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm
code in the kernel. ;-)

-- Steve

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