Presently on machines that support the NX bit, 32bit programs which
were linked with the xB linker script will segfault. This is a known
problem but will not be fixed because the linker scripts have been
deprecated in favor of the --hugetlb-align linking method. This
patch adds two possible work arounds to the HOWTO file for this problem.
Signed-off-by: Eric Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Changes from V2: Removed NUMA and 64bit from problem qualifications
Changes from V1: Moved problem and work around to Trouble Shooting
section
HOWTO | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 17307d0..fd174ec 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -712,6 +712,12 @@ ISSUE: When using the --hugetlbfs-align or
-zmax-page-size link options, the
TRY: Compile the program with the --relax linker option. Either add
-Wl,--relax to CFLAGS or --relax to LDFLAGS.
+ISSUE: When using the xB linker script with a 32 bit binary on a host with NX
+ support enabled, the binary segfaults.
+
+TRY: Recompiling with the --hugetlbfs-align options and use the new
relinking
+ method or booting your kernel with noexec32=off.
+
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