01 May, 2005

1 commit

  • Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso

    Prevent the kernel from oopsing during the extable sorting, as it can do
    now, because the extable is in the readonly section of the binary.

    Jeff says: The exception table turned RO in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 for some reason.
    Moving it causes it to land in the writable data section of the binary.

    Paolo says: This patch fixes a oops on startup, which can be easily
    triggered by compiling with CONFIG_MODE_TT disabled, and STATIC_LINK either
    disabled or enabled. The resulting kernel will always Oops on startup,
    after printing this simple output:

    I've verified, by binary search on the BitKeeper repository (synced up as
    of 2.6.12-rc2), starting from the range 2.6.11-2.6.12-rc1, that this bug
    shows up on BitKeeper revisions in the range [@1.1994.11.168,+inf), i.e.
    starting from this:

    [PATCH] lib/sort: Replace insertion sort in exception tables

    Since UML does not use the exception table, it's likely that insertion sort
    didn't happen to write anything on the table.

    Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds