I decided to try btrfs on one of my alphas and got a surprise - btrfs module does not load: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'btrfs': Exec format error dmesg has module btrfs: Relocation (type 4) overflow vs btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier Happens both natively on alpha: binutils 2.30.0 (Gentoo 2.30 p2) and gcc version 7.3.0 (Gentoo 7.3.0-r3 p1.4) or in cross-compiling: binutils (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.31.1 and gcc version 8.1.0 (Debian 8.1.0-12) btrfs.ko has size 2939856. Build-in btrfs initializes and tests itself just fine. This seems to have happened in the distant past: https://www.redhat.com/archives/axp-list/2005-March/msg00060.html Do we have a similar binutils problem again with big modules? -- Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
