Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> writes:
Looks sane, and it sounds familiar.
We need to get this out into a tree with a wide test base like
the -mm tree for a while to see if there are any common versions of
ld that have problems with this.
I seem to remember trying something like this earlier and there
being problems. But it was a long time ago and it was not this problem.
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at xensource.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb at us.ibm.com>
>
> ---
> arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 12 ++++++++++--
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff -r e29410954b12 arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S Thu Jul 27 18:06:38 2006 -0700
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S Fri Jul 28 15:15:05 2006 -0700
> @@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
> OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
> ENTRY(phys_startup_32)
> jiffies = jiffies_64;
> +
> +PHDRS {
> + text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5); /* R_E */
> + data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
> + note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* R__ */
> +}
> SECTIONS
> {
> . = __KERNEL_START;
> @@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ SECTIONS
> KPROBES_TEXT
> *(.fixup)
> *(.gnu.warning)
> - } = 0x9090
> + } :text = 0x9090
>
> _etext = .; /* End of text section */
>
> @@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ SECTIONS
> .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { /* Data */
> *(.data)
> CONSTRUCTORS
> - }
> + } :data
>
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> __nosave_begin = .;
> @@ -184,4 +190,6 @@ SECTIONS
> STABS_DEBUG
>
> DWARF_DEBUG
> +
> + NOTES
> }
> diff -r e29410954b12 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Thu Jul 27 18:06:38 2006 -0700
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Fri Jul 28 15:15:05 2006 -0700
> @@ -194,3 +194,6 @@
> .stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) } \
> .stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) } \
> .comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
> +
> +#define NOTES \
> + .notes : { *(.note.*) } :note
