Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>]

> > Segher had suggested to use .section command to specifically mark
> > .text.head section as AX (allocatable and executable) to solve the
> > problem.

Great to hear it works in real life too.

Here, have a From: line (or how should this patch history be
encoded?) :-)

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff -puN arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix  
> > arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S
> > ---  
> > linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot- 
> > issue-fix	2007-01-02 09:54:56.000000000 +0530
> > +++  
> > linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S	2007-01 
> > -02 09:57:46.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> >  #include <asm/page.h>
> >  #include <asm/boot.h>
> >
> > -.section ".text.head"
> > +.section ".text.head","ax",@progbits
> >  	.globl startup_32
> >
> >  startup_32:

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