Subject: kernel BUG at kernel/kallsyms.c:222!

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Austin)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:36:06 +0000

On 12/11/13 03:22, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:15:29PM +0000, Jonathan Austin wrote:
>>> I've tested the patch below and it solves the ARM side of things - so
>>> gives you an option other than a complete revert. Happy to put this in to
>>> RMK's patch system if you'd prefer not to have to revert and he's happy
>>> with the patch.
>>
>> I think this is the right solution because it then means that this symbol
>> has the same meaning whether on MMU or !MMU - and getting rid of these
>> kinds of gratuitous variances are the only way that !MMU is going to
>> become less fragile.
>
> The patch only fixes problem on arm, and other !MMU&&!ARM archs
> should be affected too.
>
> Also there is no CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET defined for some ARCHs,
> such as 64bit ARCHs.
>
> Currently, I suggest to filter only on ARM as attachment patch if we plan
> to merge Jonathan's patch, otherwise a more complicated approach has
> to be figured out  to do the filter(such as, define a readonly symbol in
> kernel to store PAGE_OFFSET, and let scripts/kallsyms use it for
> filtering).

I'm happy with that approach, though allowing only ARM seems a bit
conservative - is it the only architecture we actually expect to work?

Jonny
> Thanks,

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