----- "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch implements the kernel change > > commit 2f0f2a334bc38b61a9afca951185cd3844ee709d > Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Jul 22 19:24:27 2008 -0500 > > module: turn longs into ints for module sizes > > This shrinks module.o and each *.ko file. > > And finally, structure members which hold length of module > code (four such members there) and count of symbols > are converted from longs to ints. > > We cannot possibly have a module where 32 bits won't > be enough to hold such counts. > > For one, module loading checks module size for sanity > before loading, so such insanely big module will fail > that test first. > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > in crash. Without the patch I was not able to open a core dump created > with > 2.6.27 on POWER. I think it's mostly a problem on big endian > architectures, > because on little endian you can have luck and read zeros which don't > change > the value of a number while on big endian you cannot have luck. ;-) > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> I first thought these might be better served using MEMBER_SIZE(), but I see that it's most definitely a 2.6.27 (and later) change, and it's highly unlikely they'll ever go back to the larger sizes. Queued for the next release. Thanks, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
