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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 25/29] nios2: Module support
On 14/9/10 5:25 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:22:36 +0800, Ley Foon Tan said:
>> This patch adds support for loadable modules.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
>
>> +/*
>> + * Modules should NOT be allocated with kmalloc for (obvious) reasons.
>> + * But we do it for now to avoid relocation issues. CALL26/PCREL26 cannot reach
>> + * from 0x80000000 (vmalloc area) to 0xc00000000 (kernel) (kmalloc returns
>> + * addresses in 0xc0000000)
>> + */
>
> That's a nice scary comment to see. :)
>
> What's the long-term plan here?
>

We would probably need to add the ability to add trampolines in some
way, though this of course impairs a little performance. Or if the
default region of vmalloc can be configured to use the same 256MB region
as the kernel.

I wonder how MIPS (which has similar same-region call/jump instructions)
deals with this?

Chung-Lin



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