summary refs log tree commit diff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2006-10-21 18:37:03 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-10-21 18:37:03 +0200
commitdbaab49f92ff6ae6255762a948375e4036cbdbd2 (patch)
tree4cd5e6885fff895b53716eb5d333d7d1e024925a
parent84f404f695b16bd142c8dd9910d5a398f54fb044 (diff)
downloadlinux-dbaab49f92ff6ae6255762a948375e4036cbdbd2.tar.gz
[PATCH] x86-64: Overlapping program headers in physical addr space fix
o A recent change to vmlinux.ld.S file broke kexec as now resulting vmlinux
  program headers are overlapping in physical address space.

o Now all the vsyscall related sections are placed after data and after
  that mostly init data sections are placed. To avoid physical overlap
  among phdrs, there are three possible solutions.
	- Place vsyscall sections also in data phdrs instead of user
	- move vsyscal sections after init data in bss.
	- create another phdrs say data.init and move all the sections
	  after vsyscall into this new phdr.

o This patch implements the third solution.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b9df2ab6529f..1283614c9b24 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ PHDRS {
 	text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5);	/* R_E */
 	data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);	/* RWE */
 	user PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);	/* RWE */
+	data.init PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);	/* RWE */
 	note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4);	/* R__ */
 }
 SECTIONS
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = ALIGN(8192);		/* init_task */
   .data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	*(.data.init_task)
-  } :data
+  }:data.init
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
   .data.page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {