Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] uml: use -mcmodel=kernel for x86_64 | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:14:47 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 08 August 2006 16:03, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> ha scritto: > > > Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> writes: > > > > > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> > > > > > > We have never used this flag and recently one user experienced a > > complaining > > > warning about this (there was a symbol in the positive half of > > the address space > > > IIRC). So fix it. > > > > You can't use kernel cmodel in user space. It requires running on > > negative > > virtual addresses. I would be surprised if it worked for you. > > Argh, yes, I didn't test the patch and I didn't think to it a lot. So > what about the following bug? Should we hack our own module loader > based on x86-64's one?
Add the positive relocations to the standard x86-64 loader and send me a patch. Then you can reuse it.
That should be cleaner than forking it
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