On Thursday 01 January 2009 03:59:36 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Helge Deller wrote: > > > > [PATCH 1/2] module.c: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules > > > > When creating the final layout of a kernel module in memory, allow the > > module loader to reserve some additional memory in front of a given section. > > This is currently only needed for the parisc port which needs to put the > > stub entries there to fulfill the 17/22bit PCREL relocations with large > > kernel modules like xfs. > > > > Differences of this patch to previous versions: > > - added weak funtion arch_module_section_size() > > This doesn't work. > > We've had this bug several times now, and one of them just very recently. > > Some gcc versions will inline weak functions if they are in scope Ah, someone hit this elsewhere and thought this was an arch-specific bug. Any chance we can just kill those compiler versions and move on with our lives? 4.1.3 definitely doesn't have the problem. > We don't write out that whole "__attribute__" crud. I think what you mean is "I prefer __weak". Which is fine, and not trivially disprovable by grep. It's a gratuitous kernelism, but it's an inoffensive one. Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
