Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reduce export symbol CRC table size on 64-bit archs | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:50:01 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:23 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Actually I meanwhile think that module-init-tools can easily detect the changed > layout without any further kernel side adjustments: Since it is known that a > CRC always is a 32-bit value, simply checking whether the so-far-used 64-bit > value has more than 32 significant bits should suffice: If so, the new layout > is being used (with the symbol name starting at offset 4), else the old one is > in effect (name at offset 8). This ought to be a pretty trivial change to that > code.
Agreed. That can be done. I won't get chance to do that until Sunday though because I'm about to be on a plane back from Tokyo to Boston and I expect a day of living hell with jetlag/email craziness.
Jon.
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