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SubjectRe: building and using modules on arm64 hikey board
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> This is likely caused by the fact that the Android AArch64 toolchain uses -fpic by default. Could you try adding -fno-pic to the CFLAGS?

Actually Arend is using 4.4, and we need to pull your fix, Ard:

commit 80a2d83376001f6a1993f2e925670ab0e4cdb76d
Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Tue Jan 5 10:18:52 2016 +0100

arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()


>> On 30 mei 2016, at 12:21, Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> I got myself an arm64 HiKey board from LeMaker and build an Android AOSP
>> image for it (see [1]). For development I would like to use
>> CONFIG_MODULES. However, when I try to insmod the build module I get:
>>
>> [ 287.903653] module cfg80211: overflow in relocation type 261 val
>> ffffffbffc006530
>>
>> Looking AArch64 ELF documentation [2], section 4.6.5, it has:
>> code|name |operation |overflow check |
>> 261 |R_AARCH64_PREL32|S + A - P |-2^31 <= X < 2^32|
>>
>> So basically the highest 32 bits should all be one and so ffffffbf is
>> invalid. From what I could find searching internet it could be an issue
>> with linker options so I build kernel and modules with V=1. Here the
>> linker invocation for them:
>>
>> + aarch64-linux-android-ld -EL -p --no-undefined -X --build-id -o vmlinux \
>> -T ./arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
>> init/built-in.o \
>> --start-group usr/built-in.o arch/arm64/kernel/built-in.o
>> arch/arm64/mm/built-in.o \
>> arch/arm64/net/built-in.o arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o
>> arch/arm64/crypto/built-in.o \
>> ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a kernel/built-in.o certs/built-in.o
>> mm/built-in.o \
>> fs/built-in.o ipc/built-in.o security/built-in.o crypto/built-in.o
>> block/built-in.o \
>> arch/arm64/lib/lib.a lib/lib.a arch/arm64/lib/built-in.o lib/built-in.o
>> drivers/built-in.o \
>> sound/built-in.o firmware/built-in.o net/built-in.o virt/built-in.o
>> --end-group .tmp_kallsyms2.o
>>
>> aarch64-linux-android-ld -EL -r -T ./scripts/module-common.lds
>> --build-id \
>> -o net/wireless/cfg80211.ko net/wireless/cfg80211.o
>> net/wireless/cfg80211.mod.o
>>
>> Attached are vmlinux.lds and module-common.lds. I also tried taking
>> upstream arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds in hikey-linaro tree. If someone
>> can give a hint or educated guess at what to try it would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arend
>>
>> [1] https://source.android.com/source/devices.html#building-kernel
>> [2]
>> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056b/IHI0056B_aaelf64.pdf
>> <module-common.lds>
>> <vmlinux.lds>
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