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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2] arch/arm/Kconfig: default ARM_MODULE_PLTS to 'y'
On 31 January 2018 at 20:19, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
> While testing multi_v7_defconfig with LOCKDEP enabled, the kernel
> fails to load simple modules, as reported by kselftest:
>
> [ 34.107620] test_printf: section 4 reloc 2 sym 'memset': relocation
> 28 out of range (0xbf046044 -> 0xc109f720)
> selftests: printf.sh [FAIL]
>
> The problem that is seen when LOCKDEP is enabled without
> ARM_MODULE_PLTS, is that LOCKDEP eats so much memory that the top of the
> kernel gets out of reach from the bottom of the module area.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

> ---
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 51c8df561077..8014c8c322df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ config ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
> config ARM_MODULE_PLTS
> bool "Use PLTs to allow module memory to spill over into vmalloc area"
> depends on MODULES
> + default y
> help
> Allocate PLTs when loading modules so that jumps and calls whose
> targets are too far away for their relative offsets to be encoded
> --
> 2.11.0
>
>
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