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    x86/boot: Move the _stext marker to before the boot code · e728f61c
    Josh Poimboeuf authored
    When core_kernel_text() is used to determine whether an address on a
    task's stack trace is a kernel text address, it incorrectly returns
    false for early text addresses for the head code between the _text and
    _stext markers.  Among other things, this can cause the unwinder to
    behave incorrectly when unwinding to x86 head code.
    
    Head code is text code too, so mark it as such.  This seems to match the
    intent of other users of the _stext symbol, and it also seems consistent
    with what other architectures are already doing.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/789cf978866420e72fa89df44aa2849426ac378d.1474480779.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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