From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Relocation overflow with modules on Alpha
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 01:59:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xu139zybx.fsf@ford.guide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040106004435.A3228@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org> (Thorsten Kranzkowski's: 44:35 +0000")
Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:21:37AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>
>> I compiled Linux 2.6.0 for Alpha, and it mostly works, except the
>> somewhat large modules. They fail to load with the message
>> "Relocation overflow vs section 17", or some other section number.
>> I've seen this with scsi-mod, nfsd, snd-page-alloc and possibly some
>> more. Compiling them statically works. What's going on?
>
> I saw a similar thing, but I'm compiling everything statically:
I want the modules.
> : relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
> init/built-in.o(.text+0xf10): In function `inflate_codes':
>
> Disabling a not so important subsystem (sound) helped for the time being.
>
> It seems my kernel crossed the 4 MB barrier in consumed RAM and possibly
> some relocation type(s) can't cope with that. Time to use -fpic or
> some such?
I didn't think of that. Where's the proper place to set such things?
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-05 1:21 Relocation overflow with modules on Alpha Måns Rullgård
2004-01-06 0:44 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2004-01-06 0:59 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-01-08 15:15 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-01-08 22:46 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2004-01-08 14:10 ` [patch 2.6] " Ivan Kokshaysky
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[not found] ` <1bKho-37e-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-08 16:18 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-08 19:21 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
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