>>> On 06.06.17 at 19:00, <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: > FWIW, one of machines in our test farm choked on this very patch. I > don't remember details now but essentially it turned out that syslinux > (we are pxe-booting) could not handle changes in ELF sections layout > (the way syslinux calculated how to load the binary into memory resulted > in overlap of some sort).
There has always been an overlap between the main and the notes segment; there being only two segments I don't see any other potential for an overlap. In fact I can't see anything other than size differences between a 4.8.1 and a 4.9 binary, plus of course the base address change resulting from Daniel's EFI/GrUB2 patches. So I'm rather puzzled as to what effect Jürgen's patch could have had on the behavior of any loader whatsoever. The only possibly misleading section I notice is .reloc, but that's present in xen-syms only, not in xen.gz. And again it's a result of Daniel's series, not Jürgen's patch. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
