Re: Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table

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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Frans Pop<elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Affects both stable and unstable!
> >
> > kernel: Linux version 2.6.26-2-parisc64-smp [...]
> > kernel: nfs: Global Offset Table overflow (used 1075, allowed 1023)
> >
> > kernel: Linux version 2.6.30-1-parisc64 [...]
> > kernel: nfs: Global Offset Table overflow (used 1164, allowed 1023)
> >
> > The error comes from arch/parisc/kernel/module.c.
> > Looks like it is a known issue:
> > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2006-October/054826.html

I've seen the same problem.  Sent a message to the parisc-linux list
about this recently.

> Only 32-bit targets have the 14-bit signed immediate offset (0x3fff),
> which becomes a 13-bit limit when loading positive offsets e.g.
> +0x1fff or 1023 GOT slots.

Can't we offset the table and double the number of entries?

Dave
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