[PATCH 1/5] purgatory: put variables altered by kexec in .data not .bss

[Daniel Kiper]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:00:38PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
>
> elf_rel_set_symbol() fails if the symbol is in the .bss section.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
> ---
>  purgatory/arch/i386/console-x86.c        |    6 +++---
>  purgatory/arch/i386/crashdump_backup.c   |    8 +++++---
>  purgatory/arch/x86_64/purgatory-x86_64.c |    6 +++---
>  purgatory/include/purgatory.h            |    4 ++++
>  purgatory/purgatory.c                    |    4 ++--
>  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/purgatory/arch/i386/console-x86.c b/purgatory/arch/i386/console-x86.c
> index 9773573..40a734b 100644
> --- a/purgatory/arch/i386/console-x86.c
> +++ b/purgatory/arch/i386/console-x86.c
> @@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ static void putchar_vga(int ch)
>   */
>
>  /* Base Address */
> -uint8_t console_serial = 0;
> -uint16_t serial_base = 0x3f8; /* TTYS0 */
> -uint32_t serial_baud = 0;
> +uint8_t console_serial __data = 0;
> +uint16_t serial_base __data = 0x3f8; /* TTYS0 */
> +uint32_t serial_baud __data = 0;

Hmmm... I do not know why we need this patch. I can build kexec-tools
in my env without it. I suppose that most of people can too.
Could you check what is wrong with your build system?

Daniel