On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:57:48AM -0700, h...@zytor.com wrote: > On April 3, 2017 1:27:49 AM PDT, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra > <tip...@zytor.com> wrote: > >diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > >b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > >index c74ae9c..c8a3b61 100644 > >--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > >+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > >@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ SECTIONS > > _edata = .; > > } :data > > > >+ BUG_TABLE > > > > . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > > __vvar_page = .; > > Case in point why we want structured linker tables, btw...
Yes. Btw, can you explain why x86 builds and works without this patch? Because as far as I understand this (which isn't very far), we should fail linking with an unresolved symbol without this.
