From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:13:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007290213.26738.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280360876-2571-2-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com>
On Thursday 29 July 2010 01:47, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than
> 64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example)
> with -ffunction-sections.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
I forgot to mention in the changelog that 64k sections handling
is covered, for example, by this document:
"IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes"
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 23:47 [PATCH 0/4] function/data-sections Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-29 0:13 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2010-07-29 0:13 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] module linker script: coalesce function and data sections Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-08-03 13:47 ` Michal Marek
2010-08-03 13:47 ` Michal Marek
2010-08-06 2:18 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-08-06 2:18 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] kernel linker stripts: accomodate " Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] boot " Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-28 23:47 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-29 0:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] module linker script: coalesce " David Howells
2010-07-29 1:24 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-29 1:24 ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-07-29 9:09 ` David Howells
2010-07-29 9:09 ` David Howells
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