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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:40:20 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: ppc64 module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On 07/15/2013 03:47:06 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:04 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by
> > a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an
> > unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates
> > the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to
> > the calc
>=20
> Scott, can somebody from FSL test that on 32-bit and Ack it ?
>=20
> Thanks !
>=20
> Cheers,
> Ben.

It boots for me on e500mc and I can insert modules.

-Scott=