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

[Daniel Kiper]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:48:07PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 16/09/13 13:43, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Regardless of whether it works with some tools, it doesn't make a whole
> lot of sense to try and set the value of symbols in the .bss section.
> .bss is only for symbols with a value of zero.

To be precise .bss is only for uninitialized symbols. Anyway, probably
your compiler is screwed. In my case it sees that a given symbol is
initialized and places it in .data section itself.

Daniel