All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: matthieu.castet@parrot.com (Matthieu CASTET)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:25:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2DD5F8.5000200@parrot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111155930.GH11039@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King - ARM Linux a ?crit :
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:16:38PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>> It's possible to hack around this by placing the initramfs at the end of
>> the kernel image rather than at the beginning with the rest of the init
>> data.  Something like the below should work, although you should also
>> probably take care of alignment and also have this section freed when
>> the rest of the init data is freed.
> 
> You're then running into problems as _sdata.._edata is copied to RAM on
> XIP kernels, and you really don't want to waste time copying the
> initramfs to RAM.
> 
But in this case initramfs is after edata and before bss.
So where is the problem ?


Matthieu

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>,
	Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:25:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2DD5F8.5000200@parrot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111155930.GH11039@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King - ARM Linux a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:16:38PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>> It's possible to hack around this by placing the initramfs at the end of
>> the kernel image rather than at the beginning with the rest of the init
>> data.  Something like the below should work, although you should also
>> probably take care of alignment and also have this section freed when
>> the rest of the init data is freed.
> 
> You're then running into problems as _sdata.._edata is copied to RAM on
> XIP kernels, and you really don't want to waste time copying the
> initramfs to RAM.
> 
But in this case initramfs is after edata and before bss.
So where is the problem ?


Matthieu

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 18:16 ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module) Alexander Holler
2011-01-10 22:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-11  6:34   ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-11 15:17     ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-11 15:57       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-11 16:02       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-11 15:46     ` Rabin Vincent
2011-01-11 15:46       ` Rabin Vincent
2011-01-11 15:59       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-11 15:59         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12  3:00         ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-12  3:00           ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-12 16:05           ` Dave Martin
2011-01-12 16:05             ` Dave Martin
2011-01-12 16:23             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 16:23               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 18:28             ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-12 18:28               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-12 18:42               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 18:42                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 18:55                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-12 18:55                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-25  8:44                   ` Sachin Verma
2011-01-25  8:44                     ` Sachin Verma
2011-01-25 13:23                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-25 13:23                       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-27  5:43                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-27  5:43                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-10 15:43                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-10 15:43                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-10 19:41                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-10 19:41                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-11  9:31                           ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11  9:31                             ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11  9:38                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-11  9:38                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-11  9:45                               ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11  9:45                                 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11 13:55                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-11 13:55                                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-11 13:51                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-11 13:51                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-11 14:25                               ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11 14:25                                 ` Dave Martin
2011-02-11 14:42                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-11 14:42                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-12 19:52                                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-12 19:52                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-13  5:50                 ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-13  5:50                   ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-13 10:04                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-13 10:04                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-13 14:36                     ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-13 14:36                       ` Alexander Holler
2011-01-12 16:25         ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2011-01-12 16:25           ` Matthieu CASTET
2011-01-12 16:38           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 16:38             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-11 16:01     ` Nicolas Pitre

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4D2DD5F8.5000200@parrot.com \
    --to=matthieu.castet@parrot.com \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.