From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The physical memory fixmapped for the pvclock clock_gettime vsyscall was allocated, and thus is not a kernel symbol. __pa() is the proper method to use in this case. Fixes the crash below when booting a next-20130204+ smp guest on a 3.8-rc5+ KVM host. [ 0.666410] udevd[97]: starting version 175 [ 0.674043] udevd[97]: udevd:[97]: segfault at ffffffffff5fd020 ip 00007fff069e277f sp 00007fff068c9ef8 error d Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit 3d2a80a230250c2534ce5b17503670adaf1d7fff) --- arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c index 85c3959..2cb9470 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ int __init pvclock_init_vsyscall(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *i, for (idx = 0; idx <= (PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_END-PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN); idx++) { __set_fixmap(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN + idx, - __pa_symbol(i) + (idx*PAGE_SIZE), + __pa(i) + (idx*PAGE_SIZE), PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR); } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html