Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Module loader against 2.5.46: 9/9 | | Date | Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:01:22 +1100 |
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In message <20021108093516.A15440@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> you write: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:08:24PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > That explains it: I didn't think you were insane 8). Thanks, I'll > > move it to some other name which just does the "add symbols to oops" > > minimum. > > I doubt that we need all of the kallsyms data in the kernel as well (unless > you're using kdb.)
Yes. From my IDE oops dumper experience, you can get the required kernel symbols down to 70k w/o kdb (it's about 380k as stands). I haven't made this optimization yet though.
> One of the things on my todo list is to look into a kallsyms replacement > that allows cross-compilation (and actually allows kallsyms to work at > all on ARM.) > > ARM requires the ELF architecture private flags to be set correctly to link > two objects together. So there's two problems with the current setup:
Hmm, depends on state of module loader code. If it goes in, you'll be getting a new one anyway which doesn't have this problem (I use $CC to create kallsyms.o which gets linked in). Otherwise, yes.
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