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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steffen Rumler <steffen.rumler.ext@nsn.com>
Cc: Wrobel Heinz-R39252 <r39252@freescale.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: kernel panic during kernel module load (powerpc specific part)
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:32:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338982323.7150.165.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCF0897.2060405@nsn.com>

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 09:36 +0200, Steffen Rumler wrote:
> 
> how should we continue here ?
> There is the kernel panic, I've described.
> 
> Technically, there is an conflict between the code generated by the
> compiler and the loader in module_32.c, at least by using -Os.
> Because the prologue/epilogue is part of the .text and init_module()
> is part of .init.text (in the case __init is applied, as usual),
> a directly reachable call is not always possible. 

As we discussed earlier, if you could submit a patch to use r12 instead,
we should merge that.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-30 14:33 kernel panic during kernel module load (powerpc specific part) Steffen Rumler
2012-05-30 23:24 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-05-31  7:04   ` Wrobel Heinz-R39252
2012-05-31 11:04     ` Gabriel Paubert
2012-06-01  9:18       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-01 11:33         ` Wrobel Heinz-R39252
2012-06-04  7:43           ` Steffen Rumler
2012-06-04 10:53             ` Paul Mackerras
2012-06-04 11:03           ` Gabriel Paubert
2012-06-04 22:00             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-05 10:44               ` Gabriel Paubert
2012-06-05 22:47                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-05 11:32               ` Gabriel Paubert
2012-06-05 22:14                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-06  7:36             ` Steffen Rumler
2012-06-06 11:32               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-06-06 14:37                 ` [PATCH] " Steffen Rumler
2012-06-21 15:27                   ` roger blofeld

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