Re: in-kernel linking issues

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:29:15 +0100


> 2) Use a magic allocator a-la Sparc64.

That is what is currently done.

>
> 3) Best-effort: allocate both at alloc-core time (store init ptr in
> mod_arch_specific) and if they're too far apart, throw that away
> and fall back to one big alloc.
>
> 4) Implement jump stubs between the two sections.

Does not work, I need data references in the same range to.
Also frankly I would refuse to cripple my modules just to accomodate the new
code - it should be the other way around.

-Andi

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