From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261223AbVCTPZo (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:25:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261225AbVCTPZo (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:25:44 -0500 Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.181]:5644 "EHLO smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261223AbVCTPZg (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:25:36 -0500 Message-ID: <423D95EC.405@monro.org.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:55:32 +1030 From: David Monro User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.10, alpha, "Relocation overflows" X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm trying to get 2.6.10 running on my SMP ds20 alpha system. Kernel compiles fine, but _some_ modules fail to load once running, in particular the ipv6 and scsi ones (there may be more, but those are the ones I'm noticing). The error is "Relocation overflow vs section 25" for ipv6 (scsi_mod says section 27 instead). Adding a few printks, it seems that its always the R_ALPHA_GPRELHIGH case (line 265 of arch/alpha/kernel/module.c), and as far as I can tell, the problem is that "value" is more than 0x8000 less than "gp" which results in a negative value... This is using gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8). I tried using gcc 2.95 (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)), but that gets a parse error on line 55 of arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c. (What compiler _should_ I be using? The documentation seems to indicate gcc 2.95.3, but I'm finding that hard to believe). I can't go forward to 2.6.11 because thats missing _raw_read_trylock for alpha, and there doesn't appear to be a patch for that yet. 2.6.8 UP works, but SMP just hangs when probing the DAC960 raid controller. Is SMP alpha just not very well tested at the moment? Cheers, David