WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup (updated)

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup (updated)
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:19:12 -0400
Cc: chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx, virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:19:39 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <46C9311D.2030702@xxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <20070820030420.GA11070@Krystal> <46C9311D.2030702@xxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup

xen-head.S does not come back to the data section, leaving the text section
as current section. It causes problems with a slightly enhanced DEBUG_RODATA
that supports CONFIG_HOTPLUG and bringing a CPU up after the text has been
marked read-only: reference to early_gdt_descr causes a page fault.

Update:

It should be using pushsection/popsection.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 arch/i386/xen/xen-head.S |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/xen/xen-head.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/xen/xen-head.S       2007-08-20 
00:22:16.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/xen/xen-head.S    2007-08-20 13:02:38.000000000 
-0400
@@ -7,20 +7,21 @@
 #include <asm/boot.h>
 #include <xen/interface/elfnote.h>
 
-       .section .init.text
+.pushsection .init.text
 ENTRY(startup_xen)
        movl %esi,xen_start_info
        cld
        movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
        jmp xen_start_kernel
+.popsection
 
-.pushsection ".bss.page_aligned"
+.pushsection .bss.page_aligned
        .align PAGE_SIZE_asm
 ENTRY(hypercall_page)
        .skip 0x1000
 .popsection
 
-       .section .text
+.pushsection .text
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_OS,       .asciz "linux")
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_VERSION,  .asciz "2.6")
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_XEN_VERSION,    .asciz "xen-3.0")
@@ -34,5 +35,6 @@ ENTRY(hypercall_page)
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_PAE_MODE,       .asciz "no")
 #endif
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_LOADER,         .asciz "generic")
+.popsection
 
 #endif /*CONFIG_XEN */

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F  BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>