CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING broken on 83xx (and all of powerpc?)

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Sep 10 08:11:16 EST 2010


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:58:54 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> I would have expected uboot to warn (the kernel ELF header contains the
> BSS size) but apparently that isn't the case.

U-Boot doesn't use ELF files with Linux, so it has no idea where the
BSS is.  uImage is just a wrapper around a flat binary.

-Scott



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