[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 16/21] Xen-paravirt: Add code into head.S to handle being booted by Xen

[ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Ok.  If that is all this may be a difference that makes no difference.
>> binutils has a bad habit of looking at sections (which are fully
>> optional) instead of segments on ET_EXEC and ET_DYN objects.  Only
>> ET_REL objects (.o files) are required to have sections.
>>   
>
> The Xen domain loader will have to be changed to deal with that, which
> isn't too much of a problem.

Ok.  Please fix the Xen domain loader to not look at sections.  It
is a bug for any kind of executable loader to look at anything other
then segments.

> My main concern is the randomness of it, and whether it will fail in
> some more harmful way on other versions of binutils.

Reasonable and it's probably worth letting the binutils developer know.
I do agree that it is weird.   It might be that something in binutils
doesn't like us dropping some of the notes.

>> So I recommend for testing write a 100 line program that includes
>> elf.h and reads out the note segment.  If all is well we can split
>> this code out.
>>   
>
> The Xen readnotes utility is essentially that.  I'll hack it.

Sounds good.

Eric

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