Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4)

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Wednesday 31 December 2008 22:01:18 Helge Deller wrote:
> +/* Additional bytes needed by arch in front of individual sections */
> +unsigned int arch_module_section_size(struct module *mod,
> +				      unsigned int section);
> +
...
> +/* Additional bytes needed by arch in front of individual sections */
> +unsigned int __attribute__ ((weak)) arch_module_section_size(
> +		struct module *mod, unsigned int section)
> +{
> +	/* default implementation just returns zero */
> +	return 0;
> +}

Not quite what I had in mind... let me show you:

/* Bytes needed for a section: default is just the section size. */
unsigned int __attribute__((weak))
arch_module_section_size(struct module *mod, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned int sec)
{
	return sechdrs[sec].sh_size;
}

Otherwise I'd have called it "arch_module_extra_size()".

Cheers,
Rusty.