Bug 12156

Summary: v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: i386Assignee: platform_i386
Status: CLOSED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: alan, vegard.nossum
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.28-rc2 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-12-03 14:30:33 UTC 
Subject    : v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?
Submitter  : "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date       : 2008-11-24 21:19
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122756158220966&w=4
Notify-Also : "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Notify-Also : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.27.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-12-21 05:50:35 UTC 
On Sunday, 21 of December 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> > of recent regressions.
> > 
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 2.6.27.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> > (either way).
> > 
> > Bug-Entry   : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12156
> > Subject             : v2.6.28-rc2: x86_32 relocation regression?
> > Submitter   : Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> > Date                : 2008-11-24 21:19 (27 days old)
> > References  : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122756158220966&w=4
> 
> not really a regression but a long-standing inconvenience/bug of the debug 
> symbols of relocatable kernels. (ever since relocatable kernels were added 
> in '06 or so.) Nevertheless we queued up a revert of the defconfig change 
> for .29, to not expose it in the defconfig:
> 
>  f269b07: x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change
> 
> so i think it can be taken off the regressions list.
Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-12-21 11:48:30 UTC 
Taking off the list of recent regressions.