From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "linux-parisc" <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:38:34 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812311438.35394.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <495AA891.2030104@gmx.de>
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 09:32:41 Helge Deller wrote:
> BTW, although the comment states that arches can change section sizes
> in the module_frob_arch_sections() function:
> /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes. */
> it will break horrible if you do so.
> What I found was, that if you change sh_size, at least the module
> references / dependency chain will break when running lsmod.
Well, you can change the size of NOBITS sections: other things are likely
to be less successful. You could probably make them smaller, though.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 20:34 [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2) Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:34 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] module.c: fix module loading failure of large " Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:43 ` Helge Deller
[not found] ` <20081230180724.GA15235@bombadil.infradead.org>
2008-12-30 18:10 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-12-30 18:18 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-30 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] module.c: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 3) Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 2) Helge Deller
2008-12-29 20:45 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-30 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules (take 3) Helge Deller
2008-12-30 19:55 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-30 22:45 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 2) Rusty Russell
2008-12-30 23:02 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 4:08 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-12-31 11:31 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Helge Deller
2008-12-31 11:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] parisc: fix module loading failure of large modules Helge Deller
2008-12-31 13:32 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Rusty Russell
2008-12-31 14:13 ` Helge Deller
2009-01-01 0:52 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-01 12:02 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 17:36 ` Roland Dreier
2008-12-31 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 18:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 11:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-31 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 22:14 ` David Miller
2009-01-02 11:55 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 13:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-02 15:21 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Remove gcc 4.1.0 quirk from init/main.c Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 15:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 16:49 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 17:54 ` [PATCH] Disallow gcc versions 3.{0,1} Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 17:58 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 19:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-02 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 17:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-02 18:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-02 18:51 ` Al Viro
2009-01-02 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-02 22:52 ` Al Viro
2009-01-03 14:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-02 18:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 18:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 18:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-02 19:05 ` Detlef Riekenberg
2009-01-02 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-02 22:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-02 17:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-01 14:24 ` [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Ingo Molnar
2009-01-01 16:37 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 17:39 ` Helge Deller
2008-12-31 18:24 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-31 22:16 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-01 7:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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