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Re: [Xen-devel] empty initcall section

To: "Charles Coffing" <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] empty initcall section
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:14:01 +0100
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> I just pulled the latest, and the initialization code for the writable
> pagetables (ptwr_init) isn't running at boot time, so Xen crashes.
> 
> It appears like there is nothing in the .initcall.init section:
> fc551aa0 g       *ABS*  00000000 __initcall_start
> fc551aa0 g       *ABS*  00000000 __initcall_end
> 
> I would have expected to see ptwr_init listed.
> 
> I don't know linker scripts, but perhaps xen.lds is out of date?
> 
> Thanks.

Pretty odd. It works for me. :-)

Is __initcall_ptwr_init a symbol within arch/x86/memory.o?

.initcall.init is included in xen.lds, so it should appear in the
final output image.

Perhaps a gcc/binutils issue?

 -- Keir


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