From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 27/31] arm64: Loadable modules Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:16:56 +0000 Message-ID: <201208151616.56932.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201208151523.21447.arnd@arndb.de> <20120815153538.GA14264@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:58144 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781Ab2HOQRD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:17:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120815153538.GA14264@arm.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Will Deacon On Wednesday 15 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Primarily branch relocation, we have a limitation to 128MB branch range. > The alternative would be to always compile the modules with a large > memory model but we may lose some performance and could make the > relocation handling even harder. What we do now is pretty much similar > to static linking but at module load time. Ok, makes sense. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:16:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 27/31] arm64: Loadable modules In-Reply-To: <20120815153538.GA14264@arm.com> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201208151523.21447.arnd@arndb.de> <20120815153538.GA14264@arm.com> Message-ID: <201208151616.56932.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 15 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Primarily branch relocation, we have a limitation to 128MB branch range. > The alternative would be to always compile the modules with a large > memory model but we may lose some performance and could make the > relocation handling even harder. What we do now is pretty much similar > to static linking but at module load time. Ok, makes sense. Arnd