Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:45:17 +0100 | From | Thomas Steudten <> | Subject | Re: Relocation overflow vs section kernel-2.6.1 for alpha |
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Hello
I run in this problem too on my alpha sx164 and the patch fix this, so i can load all the modules without problems.
Please add the patch to the kernel 2.6.x alpha mainline.
Regards Tom
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:21:37AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > I compiled Linux 2.6.0 for Alpha, and it mostly works, except the > somewhat large modules. They fail to load with the message > "Relocation overflow vs section 17", or some other section number.
This failure happens with GPRELHIGH relocation, which is *signed* short, but relocation overflow check in module.c doesn't take into account the sign extension. Appended patch should help.
Ivan.
--- 2.6/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c Wed May 28 01:05:20 2003 +++ linux/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c Mon Aug 11 23:23:02 2003 @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs, *(u64 *)location = value; break; case R_ALPHA_GPRELHIGH: - value = (value - gp + 0x8000) >> 16; + value = (long)(value - gp + 0x8000) >> 16; if ((short) value != value) goto reloc_overflow; *(u16 *)location = value;
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