On Mon, 08 Feb 2010, David Gibson wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:02:18PM +0000, Eric B. Munson wrote:
> > elflink.c tests slice boundaries for all architectures, but this is
> > not necessary on x86[_64] as there are no rules for placement of
> > huge pages with respect to small pages.  This patch addes a define
> > that will skip this check on x86[_64] builds.
> 
> Hrm.  The x86 versions of hugetlb_slice_end() and so forth are already
> supposed to make this check a nop.  We shouldn't need to ifdef this
> out.

If you run this test on x86 with 4MB huge pages the readonly relinking will fail
because of this check.  However, they work fine with this patch in place.

-- 
Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
ebmun...@us.ibm.com

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