Messages in this thread | | | From | Ard Biesheuvel <> | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:24:09 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2] arch/arm/Kconfig: default ARM_MODULE_PLTS to 'y' |
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On 31 January 2018 at 20:19, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote: > While testing multi_v7_defconfig with LOCKDEP enabled, the kernel > fails to load simple modules, as reported by kselftest: > > [ 34.107620] test_printf: section 4 reloc 2 sym 'memset': relocation > 28 out of range (0xbf046044 -> 0xc109f720) > selftests: printf.sh [FAIL] > > The problem that is seen when LOCKDEP is enabled without > ARM_MODULE_PLTS, is that LOCKDEP eats so much memory that the top of the > kernel gets out of reach from the bottom of the module area. > > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> --- > arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig > index 51c8df561077..8014c8c322df 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig > @@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB > config ARM_MODULE_PLTS > bool "Use PLTs to allow module memory to spill over into vmalloc area" > depends on MODULES > + default y > help > Allocate PLTs when loading modules so that jumps and calls whose > targets are too far away for their relative offsets to be encoded > -- > 2.11.0 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
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