Hi Rong, On 22/11/24 18:02, Rong Xu wrote: > Does the following patch fix your issue? > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNAQSpM2hh2=Wgribb92nHF5_peRb+gxdO1Bt1MkeL8N+hw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/t/ > > Masahiro Yamada already applied the patch to kbuild-tree. > > I also proposed a similar fix as yours. But we believe the above patch > should also work (and probably is better). > > Please try and let us know. Looks like linux-next already has that patch and no it doesn't fix my issue. For the record here's the start of my System.map $ head System.map ffffffff80100000 T __split_text_end ffffffff80100000 T __split_text_start ffffffff80100000 T __unlikely_text_start ffffffff80100000 T _stext ffffffff80100000 T _text ffffffff80100000 t run_init_process ffffffff80100138 t try_to_run_init_process ffffffff8010018c t put_page ffffffff801001d0 t nr_blocks.isra.0 ffffffff80100208 T ack_bad_irq It does look like whatever is supposed to put head.o first isn't kicking in for me. > > Thanks! > > -Rong > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 6:29 PM Chris Packham > <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 22/11/24 14:58, Chris Packham wrote: >>> Hi Rong, >>> >>> I was just trying some of my in-flight changes against linux-next and >>> found that my RTL9300* based board no longer boots (nothing on the >>> serial console after U-Boot hands off to the kernel). >>> >>> A bisect between Linus's tree and linux-next/master points to commit >>> d4a7f2510ff4 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output >>> section"). A build on d4a7f2510ff4^ boots successfully. That series is >>> well beyond my area of knowledge, there may be something that the MIPS >>> SoCs are doing (or not doing) that is being affected by the sections >>> moving. >> Based on the sparc change that accompanied this commit the following >> does seem to restore working order for me: >> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> index d575f945d422..e90b0f68290c 100644 >> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ SECTIONS >> _text = .; /* Text and read-only data */ >> _stext = .; >> .text : { >> + /* Match text section symbols in head.S first */ >> + *head.o(.text) >> TEXT_TEXT >> SCHED_TEXT >> LOCK_TEXT >> >> No idea if that's appropriate >>
