From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264069AbTEGPdV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:33:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264075AbTEGPdU (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:33:20 -0400 Received: from vicar.dcs.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.88.163]:41953 "EHLO mail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264069AbTEGPdT (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:33:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:45:48 +0100 (BST) From: Matt Bernstein To: Andi Kleen cc: Andrew Morton , elenstev@mesatop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm4 In-Reply-To: <20030507123508.GA6060@averell> Message-ID: References: <1051908541.2166.40.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030502140508.02d13449.akpm@digeo.com> <1051910420.2166.55.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030502164159.4434e5f1.akpm@digeo.com> <20030503025307.GB1541@averell> <20030506143533.GA22907@averell> <20030507123508.GA6060@averell> X-URL: http://www.theBachChoir.org.uk/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-uvscan-result: clean (19DR76-0003YC-Vl) X-Auth-User: jonquil.thebachchoir.org.uk X-uvscan-result: clean (19DR7A-0001G7-Dq) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 14:35 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: >It tries to patch an instruction past the kernel text. > >It could be in the discarded .exit.text/.text.exit. With new binutils you should >get an link error when this happens, but perhaps yours are too old for that. I'm using the RH 9 standard 2.13.90.0.18-9. My environment is exactly RH9 + modutils 2.4.22-10 from rawhide, on a single Athlon XP. >When you comment these entries out from the DISCARD statement in >arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S does it go away ? Alternatively use Andrew's >latest 2.5.69-mm*, that has the patch too. Tried 2.5.69-mm2, it crashed the same way :-/