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Previously, R_ALPHA_LITERAL relocations would overflow for large kernel modules. This was because the Alpha's apply_relocate_add was relying on the kernel's module loader to have sorted the GOT towards the very end of the module as it was mapped into memory in order to correctly assign the global pointer. While this behavior would mostly work fine for small kernel modules, this approach would overflow on kernel modules with large GOT's since the global pointer would be very far away from the GOT, and thus, certain entries would be out of range. This patch fixes this by instead using the Tru64 behavior of assigning the global pointer to be 32KB away from the start of the GOT. The change made in this patch won't work for multi-GOT kernel modules as it makes the assumption the module only has one GOT located at the beginning of .got, although for the vast majority kernel modules, this should be fine. Of the kernel modules that would previously result in a relocation error, none of them, even modules like nouveau, have even come close to filling up a single GOT, and they've all worked fine under this patch. Signed-off-by: Edward Humes <aurxenon@lunos.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.