On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I bisected kdump breakage to $subject, and verified the identified > > culprit via revert. Seems kexec needs those variables as they were. > > Yuck. That does not make any sense at all. I'll try to figure out why.
Dunno, but I did find this. git@homer:..kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.5> grep -IR 'elf_rel_.*symbol' . | egrep 'backup_|digest'|grep x86_64 ./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_start", ./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_size", ./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_start",
