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Subject: Re: sh_link 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:40:23 -0800."
<20030102204023.A24347@twiddle.net>

In message <20030102204023.A24347@twiddle.net> you write:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:26:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > F... bugger. Hmm... sh_entsize? or sh_addralign?
>
> *shrug* Prolly nothing uses sh_entsize, and you don't have
> the ordering issues you'd have with addralgin.

Ack. Linus, please apply (sh_link is a 32-bit field on 64 bit archs,
so a bad choice to store offsets, and also INIT_OFFSET_MASK is out of
range).

Andi, you'll want this most.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5-bk/kernel/module.c working-2.5-bk-sh_entsize/kernel/module.c
--- linux-2.5-bk/kernel/module.c 2003-01-02 14:48:01.000000000 +1100
+++ working-2.5-bk-sh_entsize/kernel/module.c 2003-01-03 16:21:14.000000000 +1100
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ static long get_offset(unsigned long *si

/* Lay out the SHF_ALLOC sections in a way not dissimilar to how ld
might -- code, read-only data, read-write data, small data. Tally
- sizes, and place the offsets into sh_link fields: high bit means it
+ sizes, and place the offsets into sh_entsize fields: high bit means it
belongs in init. */
static void layout_sections(struct module *mod,
const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void layout_sections(struct modul
unsigned int m, i;

for (i = 0; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++)
- sechdrs[i].sh_link = ~0UL;
+ sechdrs[i].sh_entsize = ~0UL;

DEBUGP("Core section allocation order:\n");
for (m = 0; m < ARRAY_SIZE(masks); ++m) {
@@ -905,10 +905,10 @@ static void layout_sections(struct modul

if ((s->sh_flags & masks[m][0]) != masks[m][0]
|| (s->sh_flags & masks[m][1])
- || s->sh_link != ~0UL
+ || s->sh_entsize != ~0UL
|| strstr(secstrings + s->sh_name, ".init"))
continue;
- s->sh_link = get_offset(&mod->core_size, s);
+ s->sh_entsize = get_offset(&mod->core_size, s);
DEBUGP("\t%s\n", name);
}
}
@@ -920,11 +920,11 @@ static void layout_sections(struct modul

if ((s->sh_flags & masks[m][0]) != masks[m][0]
|| (s->sh_flags & masks[m][1])
- || s->sh_link != ~0UL
+ || s->sh_entsize != ~0UL
|| !strstr(secstrings + s->sh_name, ".init"))
continue;
- s->sh_link = (get_offset(&mod->init_size, s)
- | INIT_OFFSET_MASK);
+ s->sh_entsize = (get_offset(&mod->init_size, s)
+ | INIT_OFFSET_MASK);
DEBUGP("\t%s\n", name);
}
}
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void *
if (err < 0)
goto free_mod;

- /* Determine total sizes, and put offsets in sh_link. For now
+ /* Determine total sizes, and put offsets in sh_entsize. For now
this is done generically; there doesn't appear to be any
special cases for the architectures. */
layout_sections(mod, hdr, sechdrs, secstrings);
@@ -1095,11 +1095,11 @@ static struct module *load_module(void *
if (!(sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC))
continue;

- if (sechdrs[i].sh_link & INIT_OFFSET_MASK)
+ if (sechdrs[i].sh_entsize & INIT_OFFSET_MASK)
dest = mod->module_init
- + (sechdrs[i].sh_link & ~INIT_OFFSET_MASK);
+ + (sechdrs[i].sh_entsize & ~INIT_OFFSET_MASK);
else
- dest = mod->module_core + sechdrs[i].sh_link;
+ dest = mod->module_core + sechdrs[i].sh_entsize;

if (sechdrs[i].sh_type != SHT_NOBITS)
memcpy(dest, (void *)sechdrs[i].sh_addr,
-
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