On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> AFAIR this is due to relocation issues, as the FIXME comment in the >> "original" code [1] states. I don't know whether this still applies, >> though (or what would be the proper fix for this to overcome the >> relocation issues). >> >> [1] https://github.com/tklauser/linux-nios2/blob/nios2/arch/nios2/kernel/module.c#L45 >> > > Ah, I see. Please at least copy over that comment then. Will copy over the comment. > > A long-term solution would be to copy what ARM does, since that > has the same problem. The modules are allocated with > __vmalloc_node_range, passing a virtual address range that > is just before the kernel virtual address, taken out of the > top 16MB of the user space addresses. Noted, will investigate this for long-term solution. Thanks. Regards Ley Foon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
