Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:38:53 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module) |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:31:04AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: > You could probably cook up a good upper bound based on the size of the > kernel and the number of symbols in the module: i.e., assume that > every undefined symbol in the module needs to be fixed up to point at > the most distant symbol in the kernel. > > For people with normal-sized kernels, this bound will probably work > out as zero most of the time (i.e., the current situation). For > people with big kernels, or when many modules are already loaded, it > may work out at 100% -- but that's the price to pay for guaranteed > preallocation of the space required for the veneers. And anyway, you > may really need a substantial chunk of those veneers in such cases.
I think it's going to be easier just to re-order the kernel image link order to solve that problem. That just leaves uclinux...
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