Bug 858761

Summary:	x86: CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	akshayvyas29, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, pedrogfrancisco
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Description Pedro Francisco 2012-09-19 15:52:33 UTC

Description of problem:
kernel isn't relocatable. feature required for kdump to work.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.5.3-1.fc17.i686.PAE


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ grep RELOCATABLE /boot/config-3.5.3-1.fc17.i686 
  
Actual results:
# CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set

Expected results:
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y


Additional info:
It was disabled for 3.3. I believe it can be enabled back on on 3.5 -- though I'm not sure. On http://fedora.12.n6.nabble.com/Crash-kernel-x86-32-BzImage-is-not-relocatable-Can-t-be-used-as-capture-kernel-td4988599.html Josh Boyer-3 said:
«It was disabled for 32-bit kernels in the 3.3 timeframe.  There was a
binutils bug that caused silent kernel corruption on 32-bit relocatable
kernels and the best option at the time was to disable it.

You can probably enable it by removing the CONFIG_RELOCATABLE line in
config-x86-32-generic and rebuilding the kernel.»

Comment 1 Justin M. Forbes 2012-09-26 21:23:43 UTC

Want to test it for us and report back results?

Comment 2 Pedro Francisco 2012-10-09 09:11:24 UTC

It works. It compiles and, after a crash, works.

P.S.: I needed "rpmbuild (...) --without perf" to be able to compile it.

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-10-09 11:47:57 UTC

OK.  I'll look at turning it back on in a bit.

Comment 4 Josh Boyer 2012-10-10 15:19:16 UTC

This is re-enabled with the 3.6.1 build.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-10 15:37:52 UTC

kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-11 00:59:02 UTC

Package kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15855/kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 akshay vyas 2012-10-11 04:45:51 UTC

Fixed in kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17



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Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 15:34:23 UTC

kernel-3.6.1-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.