From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: system lockup with 2.6.29 on Cavium/Octeon
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 07:28:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090521062802.GC1656@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A14E6A1.4030700@snapgear.com>
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:29:05PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Interestingly the definition of MODULE_START is like this:
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) && defined(KBUILD_64BIT_SYM32) && \
> VMALLOC_START != CKSSEG
> /* Load modules into 32bit-compatible segment. */
> #define MODULE_START CKSSEG
>
>
> If MODULE_START wasn't defined then the module_alloc() code would
> have just called vmalloc() directly - and we wouldn't be in this
> mess :-)
The reason it's done like this is that if the kernel is in CKSEG0 and
modules in CKSEG2 all address references to kernel code and variables are
just 32-bit that is they can be referenced with a much shorter instruction
sequence than for full blown 64-bit code. This is just one of the
artefacts and I think we can just ignore it.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 6:12 system lockup with 2.6.29 on Cavium/Octeon Greg Ungerer
2009-05-20 14:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-05-21 5:29 ` Greg Ungerer
2009-05-21 6:28 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2009-05-21 14:50 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2009-05-22 1:19 ` Greg Ungerer
2009-05-22 9:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-05-22 11:53 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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