From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Cc: PARISC list <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Panic on boot in 64 bit 2.6.6-rc1-pa0
Date: 23 Apr 2004 15:43:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082749422.1913.54.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404231927.i3NJR33f016630@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:27, John David Anglin wrote:
> I think I know why. The 64-bit linker only supports a single stub
> table. Things go bad when a branch can't reach its stub. I hit this
> when I was trying to implement tail calls.
That's a bit, um, unfortunate, given the current kernel predisposition
for adding a new section for almost every new feature...
How hard would it be to fix this? Surely all we really need is one stub
table per text section in the final executable (linux still has only
about five executable sections in the vmlinux.lds.S map).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-22 22:32 [parisc-linux] Panic on boot in 64 bit 2.6.6-rc1-pa0 James Bottomley
2004-04-22 22:50 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-22 22:54 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-22 23:13 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-23 12:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-23 13:40 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-23 13:51 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-23 16:57 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-23 17:09 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-23 17:50 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-23 19:01 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-23 19:27 ` John David Anglin
2004-04-23 19:43 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-04-23 20:13 ` John David Anglin
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