[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>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b9df2ab..1283614 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
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 @@
. = 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) {
